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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 211

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series H, type 48, Celtic cross, Hamwic, anticlockwise whorl of three serpents, with gaping jaws, erect ears and wasp-like bodies, extended tongues and central pellet, rev. voided Celtic cross, enclosing pellet cross and curving around rosettes in angles, 0.98g (SL 47-20 plate coin; SCBI 69, 360 this coin; T&S pp. 333-40, 289-92; Gannon 174, 180, Fig. 5.5; MEC 8 Series Hd; North 102; SCBC 801B), off-centre with some chipping, otherwise a bolder very fine, an extremely rare variety

provenance
L Miller, August 2012
~ Found at Blewbury (Oxfordshire) ~


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Sold for
£380

Starting price
£320