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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 170

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series L, type 16/18, 'Hwiccian style', London, diademed and draped bust right, wreath-ties unknotted, vine scroll or floral ornament before, rev. Figure facing, head right, wearing cynehelm and cross-hatched tabard with plain tunic, pellet at end, standing in crescent boat, holding long cross pommée left with pellets on shaft and bird of prey right, perch below, 0.78g, 0° (SL 33-80; SCBI 69, 478 this coin; T&S pp. 374-5; Gannon 59, 60, 70-2, 97, no. 131, Figs. 2.68b; 2.69; 3.19a-b; North 69/72; Spink 804D/F), porous but pleasing, good very fine or near so, very rare

provenance
Beowulf, CNG 75, 23 May 2007, lot 1433
G Schinke, September 1994


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