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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 87

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series W, type 54, variety 3, standing figure looking right, holding long cross pommée either side, 'buttons' on long tunic, vertical row of pellets in left field, rev. cross-crosslet pommée on saltire cross with central pellet, wire line within stitched border, 1.10g (SL 108-50; SCBI 69, 153 this coin; T&S pp. 152-7, 155; Gannon 62, 65, 87, 160, no. 21, 161, Figs. 2.56, 5.6b; North 148; Spink 787), porous surfaces, otherwise almost extremely fine and extremely rare

provenance
J Philpotts, July 2012
~ Reportedly found "just outside Cambridge" ~

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Sold for
£1,300

Starting price
£750