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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 185

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 32a, diademed and draped bust right, almond-shaped eye gazing heavenward, small mouth, hand cupping cross pommée before, knotted wreath ties behind, rev. serpent-headed coiled 'lion' right, with long upward curling tongue extended between fangs, erect ear, circular eye, beaded body forming border, cross pommée on tail, 1.00g, 0° (SL 39-10 plate coin; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 1a; SCBI 69, 406 this coin; T&S pp. 395-402, 307-10; Gannon 35, 71, 72, 131, 137, 139-40, 175, 187-8, and Figs. 2.15, 2.48a, 4.44, 4.46b, 4.47, 6.1; North 89; Spink 803C), some surface marks on portrait, otherwise neatly centred and toned, good very fine, rare

provenance
M Heffernan, July 2004
~ Found at Weymouth (Dorset), May 2004 ~
[EMC 2004.0106 = BNJ Coin Register 2005, no. 111]

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Sold for
£650

Starting price
£300