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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 50

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, 'Saroaldo' Group, type 11, disintegrated diademed bust right, pyramidical beaded neck, with elongated beaded collar, cross above, annulet before, rev. legend around cross pommée in beaded, diamond standard with trefoil of pellet in each quadrant, cross above, 1.10g (SL 7-40; SCBI 69, 141 this coin; T&S pp. 147-51, 151-4; Gannon 49, 128, 172, no. 114, 174, 177, no. 142 and 143, 184 no. 22, 185, and Fig. 4.31; North 44; Spink 784 plate coin), toned, almost extremely fine with a powerfully rendered portrait, scarce

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, October 2003
~ Found by W Harrison at Wetwang, near Driffield (East Yorkshire) ~
[EMC 2004.0216 = BNJ Coin Register 2003, no. 121]

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Sold for
£1,100

Starting price
£320