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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 97

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series Q/R mule, modelled bust of fine style right, crescent ear, mane of hair, cross pommée before, neckline of runes (?), rev. beaded degenerate standard enclosing right angles and central pellet-in-annulet unbarred cross pommée to each side, diagonals at corners, 0.70g (SL 12-30; Abramson, 2008, Fig. 19a; SCBI 69, 700 this coin; Gannon: 191-2, Fig. 6.3; Spink 812B), slight surface porosity, otherwise a bold very fine, rare

provenance
'Stock of the late Patrick Finn', Baldwin 38, 4 October 2004, lot 92
Finn, FPL 15, February 1999, no. 53 - 'extremely interesting and extremely rare. There are certain similarities between the obverse of this coin and the Hill coin which incidenltly sold as part of the Bird collection which I catalogued for auction in 1974 (Glendinings, 20 November 1974, lot 24) - £750


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Sold for
£550

Starting price
£400