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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 230

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series O, type 40, figure facing, wearing long tunic, long cross pommée at either side, pellets on shaft of crosses and in field, rev. Monster in flight left, looking back, gaping jaws, crest, raised tail, pellet outline, clawed foot below; foreleg raised above head, 1.05g, 180° (SL 55-10 plate coin; SCBI 69, 598 this coin; T&S pp. 477-81; North 114; Spink 807B plate coin), toned, very fine

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, January 2007
~ Reportedly found in East Yorkshire, late 2006 ~
[EMC 2008.0064 = BNJ Coin Register 2008, no. 160]

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Sold for
£900

Starting price
£290