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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 260

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series Q1G, type 59, 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 tail, long crest intertwines legs, line border, 0.95g, 170° (SL 63-100 plate coin; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 1b; SCBI 69, 626 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), slightly porous flan, otherwise very fine, very rare

provenance
P Revell, July 2006
~ Reportedly found in Norfolk ~
[EMC 2007.0018]

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Sold for
£900

Starting price
£700