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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 266

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series QII, Quadruped with erect ear and gaping jaws walking left, looking forward, arched tail, enclosing pellets, falls vertically between legs, pellet-filled field, rev. Sea bird left, feet splayed, long beak, straight wing over back, cross pommée behind head, confronted by serpent, pellets in field, 1.06g, 180° (SL 64-70 plate coin; SCBI 69, 634 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), slight surface porosity, otherwise well-centred, a pleasing very fine and very rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, September 2010
~ Found at Ewelme (Oxfordshire) ~

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Sold for
£950

Starting price
£500