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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 238

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series O, type 38, snub nosed bust right, swept back hair, cross pattée before, beaded surround, cable border, rev. Bird in torc right, trefoil crest, quincunx before, 0.89g, 90° (SL 58-65 plate coin; Gannon 35-6, 61, 174 no. 125, 175, 181, 189, no. 62, Fig. 2.16; Spink 807), irregular flan with some delamination, otherwise very fine, very rare

provenance
Acquired privately from the finder, October 2018
~ Found by W Boyd at West Dean (West Sussex), August 2018 ~
[EMC 2018.0371]

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Sold for
£650

Starting price
£750