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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 186

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 32a, diademed and draped bust right, with upcurved drapery (a cuirass ?), almond-shaped eye gazing heavenward, small mouth, hand cupping cross pommée before, knotted wreath ties behind, bust framed by beading, rev. serpent-headed coiled 'lion' left, with long upward curling tongue extended between fangs, erect ear and circular eye, beaded body forming border, 1.10g, 0° (SL 39-20 plate coin; Abramson, 2012a, Fig 18; and 2012b, Fig 1a; SCBI 69, 410 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 803D plate coin), lightly porous, otherwise very fine, scarce

provenance
M Vosper, September 2001

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Sold for
£420

Starting price
£320