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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 71

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series Z, type 66, narrow 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, cross pommée above, wave pattern below, 0.96g, 90° (SL 102-20v; cf. SCBI 69, 116-21 var.; T&S pp. 133-9, 140-5; Gannon 28, 29, 128-9, 161, Figs. 2.7a, 4.32; North 145; Spink 782), a beautiful example from the same obverse die as last, about extremely fine, the variety very rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, January 2018
~ Found by W Boyd at Stoke Ash, near Eye (Suffolk), 17 December 2017 ~
[EMC 2018.0205 = PAS SF-7C72D5)

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Sold for
£4,800

Starting price
£2000