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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 246

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series M, Paschal lamb right, angled branch behind, rev. vine coiled anticlockwise from centre, 0.89g (SL 61-80 plate coin; SCBI 69, 566 this coin; T&S pp. 453-8, 363-7; Gannon 155, 164, and Figs. 4.65, 5.8; MEC 8 Series M; North 143; Spink 805), irregular and somewhat corroded flan, otherwise fine, extremely rare

provenance
R Paul and R Piercy, January 2009
~ Found at Benson (Oxfordshire)

Gannon describes a paschal lamb, but the animal does look more leonine on this mule (cf. See Mules - Series M/U, Finn 17/38)
[EMC 2010.0015 = BNJ Coin Register 2010, no. 111]

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Sold for
£190

Starting price
£90