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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 214

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series H, type 49, Hamwic, small moustached 'Wodan' head with beaded outline framed in 7 roundels, pellets between, rev. Peacock striding right, roundel above, cross pommée before, pellet in each angle, 0.94g, 90° (SL 48-735 plate coin; SCBI 69, 366 this coin; T&S pp. 321-36, 285-8; Gannon 28, 36, 113, 120, 123, 180, 190, no. 74, and Figs. 2.6, 4.19; North 108, Spink 801A), some surface roughness countered by toning in recesses, a pleasing very fine, extremely rare

provenance
J Philpotts, January 2014
SNC, September 1990 - £450

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Sold for
£700

Starting price
£480