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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 189

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 32a, diademed and richly draped bust right, folds horizontal centrally, vertical at sides, large eye gazing heavenward, small mouth, braided hair, knotted wreath ties behind, hand cupping cross pommée before, bust framed by line of small beads across shoulder, rev. serpent-headed coiled 'lion' right, with curling tongue, vestigial second serpent around, 1.04g, 90° (SL 39-50 plate coin; Abramson, 2012a, Fig 18; 2012b, Fig 1a; SCBI 69, 414 this coin; T&S pp. 395-402, 307-10; Metcalf 2016, 237; 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), cleaned, a bold very fine and extremely rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, April 2006
~ Found by D Panton in south Lincolnshire, by September 2003 ~
[EMC 2006.0273 = BNJ Coin Register 2007, no. 153 = The Searcher, September 2003, pp. 66-69]

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Sold for
£1,600

Starting price
£350