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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 271

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series QIIIB, round-bellied quadruped right, looking forward, gaping jaws, angular foreleg and trefoil tail raised, pellet-filled field, rev. Sea bird or eagle left, triquetra above tail, wing over back, pellet-filled field, 0.82g, 270° (SL 65-10 plate coin; SCBI 69, 639 this coin; T&S pp. 495-6, 386-7; Gannon 134, 151, no. 305, 191-2, Figs. 4.7b, 4.30, 4.38a; MEC 8 Series Qc; North 139; Spink 810), surface porosity, otherwise a bold very fine, and very rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, January 2014
~ Found at Coddenham (Suffolk) ~

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£650

Starting price
£300