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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 205

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series U, type 23c variety, standing figure forward, with epaulettes, hooped smock, angular arms holding short cross pommée either side, feet splayed, bird-headed crescent boat almost encircling figure, rev. linear long-necked bird right, biting berries or attacking a serpent, wing raised with finial, circular body, feet splayed, chevron above (representing crest or jaws ?), 1.13g, 90° (SL 45-60 plate coin; SCBI 69, 797 this coin; T&S pp. 568-9, 452; Metcalf 2016, 256; Gannon 66, 87, 89, 91, no. 86 and 88, 93, 117-19, 138, no. 217, 141, 185, and Figs. 3.10a; 3.14, 3.18a, 4.13, 4.49a; MEC 8 Series Ub; North 83; Spink 816), light surface porosity and darker tone, delightfully centred, good very fine, very rare

provenance
J Philpotts, May 2010
~ Found at Spalding or Heckington (Lincolnshire) ~
[EMC 2011.0034 = BNJ Coin Register 2012, no. 85]

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Sold for
£1,300

Starting price
£650