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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 51

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series BX, type 26, diademed bust, fringe of hair over forehead, shoulder breaking beaded circle, annulet before, legend around, rev. bird right atop cross pattée on steps, flanked by annulets, pellets in lower quarters of cross, all in beaded inner circle, legend around, 0.90g, 180° (SL 15-10; SCBI 69, 43 this coin; T&S pp. 94-105, 97-9; Gannon 35, 158, and Fig. 2.13a; North 124; Spink 776), nicely centred albeit slightly porous, a pleasingly bold very fine

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, July 2004
~ Found by B Smyth, at Tiptree (Essex) ~
[EMC 2004.0111 = BNJ Coin Register 2005, no. 61]

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Sold for
£350

Starting price
£300