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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 148

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, C ARIP variety, diademed and draped bust right, almond-shaped eye, C ARIP around, rev. coiled and feathered serpent clockwise, extending barbed tongue, 1.05g, 180° (SL 26-20; T&S pp. 416-21, 336-40; Gannon 76, 87, 95, 98, 140, no. 231, 181, 189, no. 62, Figs. 3.19c, 3.22a, 4.48b; North 69; Spink 820), rougher surfaces to obverse, otherwise about very fine the reverse better, extremely rare

provenance
M Vosper, March 2019
~ Found near Swaffham (Norfolk) ~

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£480

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