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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 268

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series QII, Quadruped with erect ear and gaping jaws walking left, looking forward, crossed tail, angular foreleg, pellet-filled field, rev. Deer walking left, looking forward, long antlers and gaping jaws, short tail, angular foreleg, pellet-filled field, 1.05g, 90° (SL 64-80 plate coin; T&S pp. 492-5; Gannon 113, 116-7, 154-6, 191-2, Figs. 4.7c, 4.64b; MEC 8 Series Qb; North –; Spink 809), of excellent fabric with a hint of tone, a pleasingly good very fine, extremely rare, and an affinity with the Northumbrian fantastic beast type

provenance
Dr Joseph Robinson, CNG Triton XXI, January 2018, lot 1361
Finn, FPL May 1997


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