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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 269

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series QIID, Quadruped standing left, looking forward, ear erect, gaping jaws, angular foreleg and crossed tail raised, pellets in field, rev. Sea bird or cockerel left with wing raised, cross pommée before, two drooping tail feathers, pellets in field, groundline, 1.06g, 315° (SL 64-100 plate coin; SCBI 69, 635 this coin; Spink 809D; 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), a trace of surface porosity, otherwise dark patination, a really good very fine, very rare

provenance
M Vosper, November 2007
~ Reportedly found in Norfolk ~


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