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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 63

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, "Series E", type 53, degenerate 'porcupine' bust, hair in fine quills, pellet eye, two pellets and pellet-in-annulet below, pelleted bar before, rev. stepped cross with central annulet, trefoils of pellet within and between limbs, 0.86g (SL 91-10; T&S pp. 243-5, 258-62; JMP 96-7; Gannon 161, Fig. 5.6a; North 150; Spink 785), spots of verdigris and a baser fabric than last, otherwise almost extremely fine

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, December 2018
~ Found by B Rolfe, at Great Chishill (Cambridgeshire) ~


This specimen exhibits a curious arrangement of marks within and between the void limbs. Starting with the inter-limb quadrant (top right), the pellets increase anticlockwise from zero, to one, two, three, and then remain as a trefoil until the right-hand limb which has either two double-struck pellets or four. The significance of this arrangement has not yet been ascertained.

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Sold for
£350

Starting price
£85