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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 251

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series QIB, variety 2, 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 right, 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, 0° (SL 63-40 plate coin; SCBI 69, 613 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), a really good very fine, very rare

provenance
M Vosper, September 2004
~ Found at Cranwich (Norfolk) ~


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Sold for
£1,400

Starting price
£600