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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 232

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series O, type 40, Female figure facing, triquetra headdress either side, wearing long buttoned tunic of cruciform appearance , long cross pommée either side, inverted crosses at hem, rev. Monster in flight left, looking back, raised tail, pellets behind and below, hirsute pellet outline, clawed foot below; straight foreleg raised above head, 1.00g, 90° (SL 55-30 plate coin; SCBI 69, 603 this coin; T&S pp. 477-81; North 114; Spink 807B), some partial delamination, a pleasingly good very fine, presumed unique

provenance
M Vosper, March 2007

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Sold for
£1,200

Starting price
£350