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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 199

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, 'Serpent Whorl', Series L, type 23e, London, standing female figure wearing long plain tunic, holding long cross pommée either side, no ground line, rev. whorl of three serpent-like heads clockwise, tongues form tribrach, 0.90g (SL 43-40 plate coin; SCBI 69, 558 this coin; T&S pp. 451-2, 359-62. Gannon 93, 185, no. 31, Fig. 3.18a; MEC 8 Series LM; North 85; Spink 804H), an irregular flan with some striking splits and surface roughness, otherwise about very fine and presumed unique

provenance
J Tout, October 2014
~ Found by B Paites on the Thames Foreshore, 5 May 2013 ~
[EMC 2013.0166 = PAS LON-3E64B5]


Martin Allen (pers. comms.) noted: "this is an excellent example of Series L (Type 23e). Other specimens have been found in the Thames at Lambeth and at Tilbury, and this discovery adds further weight to the notion that these coins may have been minted in London, although they are also found elsewhere in England."

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Sold for
£500

Starting price
£450