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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 267

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series QIID variety, Quadruped left, looking forward, angular foreleg and trefoil tail raised, pellet-filled field, rev. Sea bird or eagle left, feet splayed, trampling linear serpent, wedge-shaped tail, forked wing raised, cross pommée before, pellets in field, 0.84g, 270° ( SL 64-110 plate coin; Abramson, 2012b, plate; SCBI 69, 637 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), on an irregular flan, otherwise toned, a really good very fine, very rare

provenance
P Elkins, May 2009
~ Found at Hoxne (Suffolk), May 2009 ~
[EMC 2010.0018 = BNJ Coin Register 2010, no. 117]

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£1,100

Starting price
£550