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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 222

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Hen type, Hen (or cockerel) right, wing straight, fantail raised, comb, standing in foliage and pecking berries, rev. Large bird, possibly a swan or goose, right, wing over back, long tail feathers, turning head to peck suspended berries, 0.88g. 90° (SL 51-20 plate coin; Abramson, 2008, Fig. 13a; 2012b, plate; SCBI 69, 809 this coin; North -; Spink 826 plate coin), slightly porous, otherwise a stunning rarity, a really bold very fine, an iconic coin

provenance
S Fordham, December 2006
~ Found at Springwell, Little Chesterford (Essex), 2006 ~
[EMC 2007.0028]

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£4,200

Starting price
£1200