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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 129

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series J, type 36 variety, crude diademed bust right, pelleted wreath ties behind, long cross pommée before, linear drapery, rev. two birds (eagles ?) right, foreground bird has three feathers, splayed feet, coiled serpent before, attacking, 1.10g, 0° (SL 20-40; Abramson, 2008, Fig. 3; SCBI 69, 405 this coin; T&S pp. 361-7, 301-2; Metcalf no. 32; Gannon 48, no. 170; 55, no. 215, 114-5, Fig. 4.8; North 134; Spink 802D), slightly rougher surfaces, otherwise very fine or better, probably unique

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, February 2005
~ Found by G Davies at Thetford (Norfolk), November/December 2004 ~
[EMC 2005.0036 = BNJ Coin Register 2006, no. 107]


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Sold for
£3,500

Starting price
£190