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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 173

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series L, type 15, 'Hwiccian style', London ~ imitative (?), diademed and jewellery draped bust right, rounded folds, almond-shaped eye gazing heavenward, wreath-ties unknotted, long cross pommée before, pellet on shaft, rev. long-armed, figure facing, feet turned outward, wearing plain robe, holding long cross pommée either side, pellet on shaft of cross, 0.70g, 10° (SL 35-20 plate coin; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 1a; SCBI 69, 489 this coin; T&S pp. 374-5; Gannon 59, 60, 70-2, and Figs. 2.67, 2.68a), surface porosity, nevertheless a striking piece and an endearing portrait, very fine or near so

provenance
D Glover, June 2005
~ Reportedly found near Cambridge ~


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