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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 121

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series J, type 85, York, head right, with triple diadem, distinct eyebrow, crescent ear 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, 0.88g, 270° (SL 18-20; SCBI 69, 385 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), on a plated flan, otherwise toned, near extremely fine and highly pleasing

provenance
A Gillis, October 2008
~ Found at Malton (Yorkshire) ~
[EMC 2009.0056]


Recent research by Ron Bude (BNJ, 2020, pp. 77-92) has indicated that plated issues are most probably of official manufacture.

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Sold for
£500

Starting price
£240