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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 220

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Type 94, Archer kneeling right, bow and arrow before, branch behind, rev. large bird, possibly a swan or goose left, wing over back, long tail feathers, turning head to peck suspended berries, 0.93g, 270° (SL 50-20 plate coin; SCBI 69, 806 this coin; T&S pp. 437-9, 349. Gannon 105-6, Figs. 3.29, 3.31; North -; Spink 825), rough surfaces with areas of heavier disturbance and delamination, otherwise about fine, extremely rare

provenance
S Elden, February 2013
~ Found at West Wratting (Cambridgeshire) ~
[EMC 2014.0049 = BNJ Coin Register 2014, no. 56]

A type also found muled with Series L related issues.

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Sold for
£800

Starting price
£1000