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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 54

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series B (BI), type 27b, diademed bust right, with braided hair and fringe over forehead, large jaw, pellet lips and modelled ear, bead and annulet before, shoulder breaking beaded circle at an unusual angle, rev. bird right atop cross pattée, flanked by pellets, annulets in quarters, beaded serpent circle starting at 6 o'clock, 1.18g, 0° (SL 16-10; SCBI 69, 51 this coin; T&S pp. 94-105, 100-6; Gannon 36, 47, 48, no. 173, 107-10, 112, 136, 184, 184, no. 18, Figs. 2.18a, 4.1b, 4.5; North 124/126; Spink 776/777), short of flan before portrait, otherwise toned, a pleasingly bold very fine, an unusual variety

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, February 2009
~ Found by P Elkins at Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford (Suffolk), January 2009 ~
[EMC 2009.0109 = PAS SF-58D5E3]


Dr. Martin Allen notes that the form of the cross and extra annulets around it are unlike any regular coin from Series B, but are similar to British Museum types 26-27ab.


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Sold for
£550

Starting price
£130