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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 206

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series U, type 23 ~ double reverse, disjointed, long-necked bird right in foliage, pecking berries, triangular wing raised, segmented body, feet splayed, rev. disjointed linear long-necked bird left in foliage, pecking berries, wing raised, segmented body, feet splayed, 0.96g, 0° (SL 45-80 plate coin; SCBI 69, 798 this coin; Abramson, 2012b, plate; T&S pp. 552-69; 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; cf. MEC 8 Series Ub; cf. North 83; cf. Spink 816), a beautiful and well-centred double reverse, almost extremely fine, extremely rare

provenance
Beowulf, CNG 75, 23 May 2007, lot 1396
M Vosper, March 2002

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Sold for
£650

Starting price
£400