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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 163

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, 'Rosette', diademed and draped bust right, with smooth folds, horizontal centrally, vertical at shoulders, large almond-shaped eye, eyebrow and nose joined, crescent ear, wreath ties behind, rosette and cusp before, rev. Standing figure, looking right, angular arms, cynehelm, ribbed chest, pleated skirt, feet spread, long cross pommée either side, 0.95g, 0° (SL 32-40; SCBI 69, 528 this coin; Gannon 53, no. 206, 57, no. 227, 87, 101, no. 159, 162-3, 169, 189, no. 62, and Fig. 5.7c; Spink 823), speckled verdigris and the obverse slightly off-centre, otherwise a really bold very fine, extremely rare

provenance
K Chapman, October 2015
'From a private collection in Monaco'

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Sold for
£1,400

Starting price
£950