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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 83

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series W, type 54 variety, standing figure looking left, long wispy hair, feet splayed, holding long cross pommée either side with skeletal arms, wearing 'lorica hamata' mailcoat, rev. cross crosslet on saltire cross, central pellet, 1.03g (SL 108-25; SCBI 69 -; T&S pp. 152-7, 155; Gannon 62, 65, 87,160, no. 21, 161, Figs. 2.56, 5.6b; North 148; Spink 787), small chips to edge and rougher surfaces, otherwise very fine, an extremely rare variety

provenance
C Hetherington, March 2019
~ Found at Lyminge, Shepway District (Kent), August 2017 ~
[PAS KENT-AEFB28]

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Sold for
£400

Starting price
£480