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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 119

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series J, type 85, York, diademed head right, crescent ear, pellet lips, protruding chin and braided hair, rev. outline bird (dove ?) right on cross pommée, unbalanced pellet-in-annulet either side, quatrefoil of berries before bird with three tail feathers below, trefoils in lower angles, 1.11g, 270° (SL 18-20; SCBI 69, 383 this coin; T&S pp. 345-53, 293-5; Gannon 36, 48, no. 170, 107, no. 5, 109-12, and Figs. 2.18b, 4.2a; North -; Spink 802 plate coin), well-centred, toned, good very fine

provenance
S Newson, November 2008
~ Found 'in same field as York gold shilling', at Kirkburn (East Yorkshire), 2008 ~
[EMC 2009.0055]

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