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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 167

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 diamond of four pellets, rev. Figure facing, head right, wearing folded tabard, belt and plain tunic, standing in crescent boat holding long cross and bird of prey, pellets on shaft of cross, 0.92g, 180° (SL 33-30 plate coin; SCBI 69, 466 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), scuffs to cheek, otherwise darker tone, a bolder very fine, rare

provenance
M Vosper, December 2012

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Sold for
£500

Starting price
£520