Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 215
Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series H, type 49, Hamwic, small moustached 'Wodan' face with a beaded outline framed in 8 roundels, pellets between, rev. Peacock striding right, rosette below neck, pellet cross between legs, clusters of 2 and 3 pellets beneath feet, 0.92g, 90° (SL 48-815 plate coin; SCBI 69, 371 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 spots of silver depletion, otherwise a pleasingly bold very fine, very rare
J Philpotts, March 2013
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