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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 239

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series O, type 38, peg-nosed bust right, swept back hair, beaded surround with blundered legend in margin, rev. Bird right in torc, distinct feathers on head, pellets behind, linear surround broken between 1 and 3 o'clock, blundered legend in margin, 1.06g, 90° (SL 58-80 plate coin; SCBI 69, 593 this coin; Gannon 35-6, 61, 174, no. 125, 175, 181, 189, no. 62, Fig. 2.16; Spink 807), a remarkable and most curious variety, toned, well-centred, very fine, presumed unique

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, May 2013
~ Found by J Rayner at Kelvedon, near Colchester (Essex) ~

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£850

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£400