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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 166

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 20, diademed and jewellery draped bust right, 'Hwiccian neck', almond-shaped eye, small mouth, long nose, wreath-ties knotted, cup in palm below cross pommée, rev. figure facing, head right, wearing pelleted tabard and plain tunic, standing in crescent boat holding long cross and bird of prey, perch below, pellets on shaft of cross, 0.89g, 180° (SL 33-25 plate coin; SCBI 69, 463 this coin; T&S pp. 402-5, 314-18; Gannon 66, 97, no. 131, 187-8, and Figs. 2.61, 3.20b, 6.1; MEC 8 "Series KLa"; North 74; Spink 803E), waterworn and toned, a bolder fine or marginally better, very rare

provenance
M Edwards, October 2013
~ Reportedly found in Hampshire ~
[EMC 2014.0059]

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Sold for
£260

Starting price
£220