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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 258

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series QIH, half-length diademed and draped figure, wreath ties behind, angular features, arm reaching across to hold long cross pommée before, pellets in field, rev. quadruped left, looking back, gaping jaws, erect ear, tail entwining legs, pellets in field, line-beaded border, 1.01g. 0° (SL 63-90 plate coin; SCBI 69, 623 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; MEC 8 Series Qa; North –; Spink 808D plate coin), a remarkable coin of good fabric and central striking, toned, extremely fine, very rare thus

provenance
Beowulf, CNG 75, 23 May 2007, lot 1424


The animal depicted on the reverse is now thought to represent a lion. Although there are many negative allegories relating to lions in early Christianity, in later times the lion became a symbol of Christ, as the Lion of Judah, and his Resurrection (Gannon, pp. 125-134).


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Sold for
£2,200

Starting price
£850