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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 70

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, long drooping moustache and beard forked into W shape, rev. straight long-legged 'hound' or 'wild boar' right, long snout, erect ears, tail curls below body, angular legs and feet, XVX above, chevrons below, 1.07g, 90° (SL 102-20; SCBI 69, 117 this coin; T&S pp. 133-9, 140-5; Gannon 28, 29, 128-9, 161, Figs. 2.7a, 4.32; North 145; Spink 782 plate coin), from the same obverse die as next, of refreshingly native style, toned, nearly extremely fine, rare

provenance
M Vosper, January 2009
~ Found by P Murawski, near Hitchin (Hertfordshire), September 2000 ~


[EMC 2000.0095 = BNJ Coin Register 1999, no. 70]
This coin has been recorded twice on the EMC Database, the second at the time of Abramson's acquisition, and evidently predicated on an assumed findspot of a recent discovery near King's Lynn (Norfolk) [EMC 2010.0013 = BNJ Coin Register 2010, no. 99]. However scrutiny of find register plates identifies this to be the same as that reported nine years earlier, and most significantly by the finder himself.

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Sold for
£3,000

Starting price
£1300