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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 249

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series QIB, variety 1, two figures facing, square shoulders, wearing long tunics tied at waist, feet turned to centre, long cross pommée between and at either side, trefoil above, rev. Monster in flight left, looking back, gaping jaws, crest above and forward, raised trefoil tail, feathered chest, clawed foot below; bent foreleg raised above head, pellets in field, 1.00g, 90° (SL 63-30 this coin; SCBI 69, 611 this coin; T&S pp. 488-92, 382-5; Gannon 28-9, 39, 53, 65, 87, 101, no. 159, 148-50, 175, 191-2, and Figs. 2.7b, 2.44; MEC 8 Series Qa; North 133; Spink 808), beautifully toned, a really good very fine, very rare

provenance
M Vosper, January 2004
~ Found near Cranwich (Norfolk) ~
[EMC 2004.0213 = BNJ Coin Register 2003, no. 106]

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Sold for
£1,500

Starting price
£650