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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 68

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series Z, type 66, broad head facing, with almond-shaped eyes and bell-shaped hair style curling outward, long moustache and beard forked into W shape, beaded border enclosed within wire lines, rev. long-legged 'hound' or 'wild boar' in running posture right, claws below, tail raised with bead finial, ears erect, pellets between legs, 1.01g, 330° (SL 102-10; SCBI 69, 115 this coin; T&S pp. 133-9, 140-5; Gannon 28, 29, 128-9, 161, Figs. 2.7a, 4.32; cf. EMC 2004.0146 same dies; North 145; Spink 782), light surface porosity, otherwise well-centred, a bold very fine, rare

provenance
Spink, February 2010
~ Reportedly found in Essex ~

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Starting price
£1200