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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 259

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series Q1G, type 59, delicate featured facing bust, possibly female patron or Christ, bell-shaped hair style, pellets in field, fine beaded border, rev. Quadruped standing left, looking back, gaping jaws and raised trefoil tail, pellets in field, long crest intertwines legs, line border, 0.80g, 90° (SL 63-100 plate coin; Abramson, 2012b, plate; SCBI 69, 625 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 144; Spink 808C plate coin), a very pleasing facing portrait, foreshortened flan, otherwise lightly porous, a really good very fine, very rare

provenance
T Owen, January 1998
~ Found at Kilham/Bridlington (Yorkshire), July 1997 ~
[EMC 1997.0077]

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Sold for
£1,900

Starting price
£600