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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 198

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, 'Serpent Whorl', Series L, type 23e, London, standing figure in cynehelm looking right, wearing cross-hatched tabard with plain tunic, holding long cross pommée either side, feet splayed, rev. whorl of three serpent-like heads anticlockwise, linear tongues form tribrach, 0.97g (SL 43-10 plate coin; SCBI 69, 557 this coin; T&S pp. 451-2, 359-62; Gannon 93, 185, no. 31, and Fig. 3.18a; MEC 8 Series LM; North 85; Spink 804H), slight surface porosity, otherwise lightly toned, about extremely fine, scarce

provenance
J Philpotts, June 2007
~ Reportedly found in Norwich (Norfolk), 2007 ~
[EMC 2008.0060 = BNJ Coin Register 2008, no. 155]

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£1,300

Starting price
£300