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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 209

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series H, Celtic cross, type 39, Hamwic, pecking bird in beaded foliage right, wing raised and curled, pellet eye, beak open, feet splayed, pellets in field, rev. voided Celtic cross with rosette in angles and at centre, 0.97g (SL 46-10 plate coin; Abramson, 2012a, Fig 27; SCBI 69, 356 this coin: T&S pp. 321-36, 283; Gannon 113, 119, 120, 123, 180, 185, Fig. 4.16; MEC 8 Series Ha, 329-30; North 96; Spink 801 plate coin), a splendid specimen of good fabric, light tone, a pleasingly good very fine

provenance
TimeLine Auction 1, March 2010

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£950

Starting price
£420