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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 273

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series QIII variety, sinuous quadruped left, looking back and up, tail rising clockwise between hind legs to form triquetra above, angular foreleg raised, feet flat, pellets in field, rev. Gryphon striding left, foreleg raised, curled tail raised, head facing, ears erect, wing over back, pellets in field, 1.07g, 270° (SL 65-30 plate coin; SCBI 69, 642 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 on a darkly toned flan, about very fine, very rare

provenance
SNC, September 2010, HS4257
M Vosper, July 2010

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