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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 159

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, 'Celtic Cross' / Series U, type 23b-d/34b mule, crested bird walking right through foliage, wing raised, feet splayed, pecking berries, rev. cross pommée with pellet in each angle, superimposed on broad-limbed Celtic cross, rosette in each angle, 1.00g (SL 29-20 plate coin; SCBI 16, 65; SCBI 69, 519 this coin; T&S pp. 561; Gannon 53, no. 206, 57, no. 227, 87, 101, no. 159, 162-3, 169, 189, no. 62, and Fig. 5.7c; North -; Spink 816/822), somewhat porous, otherwise about very fine, extremely rare

provenance
N Mills, January 2005


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Sold for
£220

Starting price
£130