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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 164

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, 'Rosette', diademed and draped bust right, with smooth folds, horizontal centrally, vertical at shoulders, rosette and cross before, rev. Standing figure, looking right, wearing cynehelm, cross-hatched tabard and plain skirt, feet spread, foliage either side, 1.06g, 90° (SL 32-50; Abramson, 2012b, plate; SCBI 69, 529 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 plate coin), the reverse slightly off-struck, otherwise a really bold very fine, probably unique

provenance
P Revell, July 2009
~ Found by M Tey in Essex ~
[EMC 2010.0026; BNJ Coin Register 2010, no. 110]

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Sold for
£600

Starting price
£650