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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 69

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series Z, type 66, head facing, with pellet eyes, prominent cheeks and bell-shaped hair style formed of outward crescents either side of head, down-flowing moustache and beard, rev. straight long-legged 'hound' or 'wild boar' right, long snout, erect ears, tail curls below body, angular legs and feet, wave above, double beaded border, 1.01g, 180° (SL 102-15; SCBI 69, 116 this coin; T&S pp. 133-9, 140-5; Gannon 28, 29, 128-9, 161, Figs. 2.7a, 4.32; North 145; Spink 782), some delamination to portrait, otherwise toned, about extremely fine and extremely rare

provenance
M Vosper, July 2015
~ Found at King's Lynn (Norfolk) ~
[EMC 2016.0050]

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