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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 105

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Saltire standard, variety P1ai, type 51, two naked figures with exaggerated features, bird-headed figure on right looking across, moustached figure left, long cross pommée on stand between and long cross each side, rev. beaded saltire in double beaded standard, trefoils in angles, pellets in margins, 0.90g (SL 13-80; Abramson and Bonser, 1999, 101/159; 104/177; 164/174, and Figs. 5.9a, 5.22; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 17j; SCBI 69, 721 this coin; T&S pp. 524-7, 432-3; North 53; Spink 833 plate coin), porous, very fine and very rare

provenance
T Owen, January 1995

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Sold for
£320

Starting price
£250