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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 91

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series R5, 'Rigold' type R1X/R1b, Spi, radiate bust of crude style right, crescent ear, runic SPI before, and cross pommée behind, pellets in field, beaded pyramid neck rests on two curved beaded exergual lines, rev. beaded degenerate standard enclosing symmetrical angular symbols, pellets and central annulet, tufa containing trefoil of pellets, horns at upper corners, diagonals at lower, unbarred cross pommée to sides and below, 0.80g, 90° (SL 11-70; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 11al; SCBI 69, 670 = Timms, 2020, R5, no. 44, this coin; T&S pp. 511-3, 403-6; Metcalf no. 102; Gannon 24, 43-5, 43, nos. 144, 45; no. 151, 55, 56, 60, 160, no. 30, 168, no. 85, 172, 174, 175-6, 191, and Figs. 2.30, 2.31, 2.46, 2.47, 5.5e, 5.19c; North 153; Spink 813), handsomely toned, extremely fine and scarce

provenance
M Vosper, January 1999
~ Found at Spalding (Lincolnshire), 1997/8 ~

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Sold for
£520

Starting price
£250