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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 200

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, "Fledgling", type 33, Style A, wolf or lion head right, prominent mane behind, pointed ear above, serpent-tongue curling below, serrated border, rev. eagle running right, large claws below, carrying fish in mouth, trefoil tail in triquetra above, beaded border, with vestige of double border at top, 1.10g, 180° (SL 44-10 plate coin; SCBI 69, 452 this coin; Abramson, 2008, Fig. 9; and, 2012b, plate; Gannon, 2003, Fig. 4.66; 2008, Fig 6; Spink 832 plate coin), a magnificent coin, beautifully centred and of the highest artistic prowess, toned, extremely fine, extremely rare

provenance
SNC, December 2002
~ Found by I Postlethwaite at Binnington, 'on the Staxton end of the A46 towards Scarborough', SE 998 780 (Yorks), June 1997
[EMC 1997.0082 = BNJ Coin Register 1997, no. 82]


The find site is referred to by Bonser as "near Malton Site 1" in 'Fifteen years of coin finds from productive sites', The Yorkshire Numismatist 3, pp. 39-46

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Sold for
£4,500

Starting price
£320