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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 58

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series B (BI variety), triple diademed head right, crescent ear, pointed nose, in anticlockwise serpent circle starting at 4 o'clock, corded-chain surrounds, rev. skeletal bird with modelled head right atop cross pattée, trefoil of berries before, flanked by large annulets, all within serpent circle starting at 4 o'clock, 1.17g, 315° (SL 16-50; SCBI 69, 60 this coin; T&S pp. 94-105, 100-6; Gannon 36, 47, 48, no. 173, 107-10, 112, 136, 184, 184, no. 18, and Figs. 2.18a, 4.1b, and 4.5; North 126; Spink 777), a handsome coin, almost extremely fine, rare

provenance
TimeLines, October 2005
~ Found at Cliffe, near Medway (Kent) ~
[EMC 2005.0070]

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Sold for
£580

Starting price
£160