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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 61

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series BZ, type 29b, haloed outline head with cruciform features, blundered legend .VV++.++^ around, rev. bird right atop plain cross, large annulet before, beaded circle with blundered legend, 1.10g, 0° (SL 17-10; SCBI 69, 111 this coin; T&S pp. 133-7, 138-9; North 131; Spink 778), slightly rough surfaces, otherwise well-centred, a bold very fine, rare

provenance
Rudd FPL 34, July 1998
~ Found near Norwich (Norfolk), 1997 ~
[EMC 1998.0051]
For further discussion, see A R J Hutcheson (2009, UEA) 'The Origins of East Anglian Towns: Coin Loss in the Landscape, AD 470-939, pp. 119'

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£600

Starting price
£200