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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 188

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 32a, diademed and richly jewelled and round draped bust right, large eye gazing heavenward, small mouth, braided hair, delicate knotted wreath ties behind, hand cupping cross pommée before, rev. serpent-headed coiled lion right, with bifurcated tongue, second serpent around inner serpent, heads aligned, 0.80g, 180° (SL 39-50; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 1a & 19b; SCBI 69, 413 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, and 6.1; North 89; Spink 803C), good very fine and extremely rare

provenance
M Vosper, January 2003
~ Found south west of Mildenhall (Suffolk), by late 2002 ~
[EMC 2004.0210 = BNJ Coin Register 2003, no. 96]

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Sold for
£600

Starting price
£350