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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 248

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series V, type 7, wolf with long limbs and tail right, looking down and back to suckling twins, cross pommée between twins, rev. Bird astride two stalks, pecking copious berries right, 0.89g, 180° (SL 62-10 plate coin; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 7; SCBI 69, 804 this coin; T&S pp. 570-5, 453; Gannon 119, 139, no. 225, 144-5, 185, Figs. 4.18a, 4.53; MEC 8 Series V; North 120; Spink 817 plate coin), small flan chip and of baser fabric than the last, nonetheless an attractively well-centred example, almost extremely fine, scarce

provenance
M Vosper, July 2007
B Tregear collection
~ Found by D Jones near Calne (Wiltshire), 2005 ~
[EMC 2006.0386 = BNJ Coin Register 2007, no. 188]

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Sold for
£4,200

Starting price
£1100