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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 263

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series QII, long-legged quadruped left, looking back, beak open, crest above, bifurcated tail with finial ends, each loop enclosing a pellet, pellets in field, rev. Sea bird left, feet splayed, forked tail, wings curved before and above, cross pommée before, pellets in field, 1.04g, 180° (SL 64-30 plate coin; SCBI 69, 629 this coin; T&S pp. 492-5. Gannon 113, 116-7, 154-6, 191-2, and Figs. 4.7c, 4.64b; MEC 8 Series Qb; North –; Spink 809), toned, a really good very fine, presumed unique

provenance
Lockdales, 10 July 2011, lot 368

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Sold for
£2,300

Starting price
£800