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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 184

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 33, diademed and square-draped bust right, wreath ties behind, cross pommée before, rev. lion head left, chevron mane, ear forward, snake-tongue rises in figure-of-eight ending in serpent head, 1.00g, 180° (SL 38-20 plate coin; T&S pp. 388-91, 306; Gannon 59, no. 237, 64-5, 131-2, 134, 135, 139, 156, 178, no. 155, 189, no. 62, Figs. 2.48b, 2.49a, 2.58, 4.35b, 4.36a, 4.36d; North 93; Spink 803), slight porosity, otherwise toned, about very fine, very rare

provenance
W Boyd, February 2017

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Sold for
£480

Starting price
£270