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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 84

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series W, type 54, variety 1D, standing three-quarter length figure looking right, jutting beard, swept-back hair, plain drapery, holding long cross pommée right, cross behind, rev. cross crosslet on saltire cross with central boss, 1.08g (SL 108-30; SCBI 69, 149 this coin; T&S pp. 152-7, 155; Gannon 62, 65, 87, 160, no. 21, 161, Figs. 2.56, 5.6b; EMC 2014.0247 same dies; North 148; Spink 787), of neater style than last, the reverse somewhat off-struck, otherwise toned, a bolder very fine, rare

provenance
M Vosper, March 2013
~ Reportedly found in the Hunstanton/King's Lynn area (Norfolk) ~

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Sold for
£1,200

Starting price
£800