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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 72

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series Z, type 66, narrow face with eyes closed, bell-shaped hair style curling outward, flanked by retrograde and normal Z, deeply forked beard with pellets interspersed between and around, rev. long-legged 'hound' or 'wild boar' right, sniffing right, erect ears, tail curls below body, angular legs and feet, sniffing right, tail curled below body intertwining rear legs, ^I^ above, 1.20g, 180° (SL 102-42; SCBI 69, 119; T&S pp. 133-9, 140-5; Gannon 28, 29, 128-9, 161, Figs. 2.7a, 4.32; North 145; Spink 782), a remarkable and most curious variety for this series with finely incised decoration, extremely fine and presumed unique

provenance
K Roberts, November 2003
~ Found by T Johnson, near Driffield (East Yorkshire), October 2003 ~
[EMC 2004.0215 = BNJ Coin Register 2003, no. 118]

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Sold for
£5,500

Starting price
£650