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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 179

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, obverse C-D, type 33 (cf. Reculver), tall diademed bust right, knotted wreath ties behind, elaborate drapery with breastplate (?), cross pommée before, rev. lion head right, chevron mane, ear forward, distinct sharp teeth, long curling snake-tongue, 1.03g, 270° (SL 38-10 plate coin; SCBI 69, 423 this coin; Gannon 59, no. 237, 64-5, 131-2, 134, 135, 139, 156, 178, no. 155, 189, no. 62, and Figs. 2.48b, 2.49a, 2.58, 4.35b, 4.36a, 4.36d; North 93; Spink 803 plate coin), light surface porosity, otherwise a striking coin, very fine

provenance
M Vosper, June 2006

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Sold for
£1,600

Starting price
£500