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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 191

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 32a, diademed and draped bust right, smooth folds, wreath knot behind, cupping cross pommée before, pellet at foot of cross, framed in beaded 'keyhole', rev. serpent headed coiled lion, priapic, curled fore and hind limbs, lines and pellets form fur behind, 0.87g, 90° (SL 40-20 plate coin; SCBI 69, 418 this coin; Abramson, 2012a, Fig 18; 2012b, plate; 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; Spink 803C plate coin), a reverse die crack, otherwise a choice example, a most pleasing extremely fine, scarce

provenance
A Gillis, 2006
~ Found at West Rasen (Lincolnshire) ~


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Sold for
£1,300

Starting price
£600