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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 250

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. linear monster in flight left, looking back, gaping jaws, raised tail, feathered chest, clawed foot below, bent foreleg raised above head, pellets in field, 1.12g, 180° (SL 63-30 plate coin; SCBI 69, 612 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 Qb; North 133; Spink 808 plate coin), some residual deposits, otherwise well-centred, toned, almost extremely fine, very rare

provenance
M Vosper, January 2008
B Tregear collection
~ Found at King's Lynn (Norfolk) ~
[EMC 2009.0071 = BNJ Coin Register 2009, no. 205]

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Sold for
£2,600

Starting price
£800