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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 147

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series T, type 9 variety, 'Hwiccian' style, diademed and draped bust right, triple wreath-ties unknotted, pelleted headdress, rounded drapery, cross pattée and LEL before, wire line within beaded border, rev. quilled crescent left, thick body with globular head and pellet outline beneath, elaborate candelabrum, arabesque or anchor symbol below, all within pelleted wire line inside beaded border, 0.90g, 270° (Abramson, 2008, Fig. 31; 2012a, Fig 19; 2012b, Fig 7; SCBI 69, 781 this coin; T&S pp. 545-51, 442-4; Gannon 48, no. 173, 53, 53 no. 206, 180, Fig. 5.28a; North 80; Spink 815), slight surface porosity, otherwise well centred, toned, a bold very fine, presumed unique

provenance
N Mills, April 2003
~ Found at Clavering (Essex), Spring 2003 ~
[EMC 2003.0063 = BNJ Coin Register 2003, no. 114]

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Sold for
£1,000

Starting price
£480