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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 254

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series QIE/QIID, laterally reversed, diademed and draped bust left, wreath ties behind, cross pommée and pellets before, pyramidal neck, rev. Quadruped standing right, looking back, gaping jaws, crest right, tail intertwines legs, pellets in field, 1.03g, 270° (SL 63-65 plate coin; SCBI 69, 616 this coin; T&S pp. 488-95, 382-5; Gannon 28-9, 39, 53, 65, 87, 101, no. 159, 148-50, 175, 191-2, and Figs. 2.7b, 2.44; North 133/-; Spink 808A/809), an exceptional example, extremely fine, and extremely rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, October 2016
~ Found on the Ousden-Ligate Parish boundary (West Suffolk), 9 August 2011 ~
[EMC 2017.0038]

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Starting price
£950