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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 276

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series QIIIA variety, type 64, sinuous quadruped left, arched tail with finial end falling anticlockwise between hind legs, foreleg raised, flat feet, pellets in field, rev. Sea bird or eagle right, looking forward, leg spurs, splayed feet, triquetra above, pellet-filled field, 0.80g, 270° (SL 65-50 plate coin; SCBI 69, 645 this coin; T&S pp. 495-6, 386-7; Gannon 134, 151, no. 305, 191-2, and Figs. 4.7b, 4.30, 4.38a; MEC 8 Series Qc; North 139; Spink 810), well-centred on a dark but lightly porous flan, a bolder very fine and very rare

provenance
J Philpotts, June 2009

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Sold for
£850

Starting price
£550