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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 190

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 32a, diademed and draped bust right, framed in 'keyhole', 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 long upward curling tongue extended between fangs, erect ear, circular eye, 'feathered' body with beaded outline, only forelimbs shown, 1.05g, 0 (SL 40-10 plate coin; SCBI 69, 415 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), a small split to flan and deposits in recesses, otherwise well centred and pleasing, a bold very fine, rare

provenance
Bruun-Rasmussen 764, 11 December 2006, lot 5398

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