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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 279

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series QIVC, type 44, Lion walking right, tongue extended, foreleg and S-shaped tail raised, rev. Squawking bird walking left, beak open, wings and tail raised, berries and vine before, wedge shaped tail with pellet appendage above and below, 0.99g, 0° (SL 66-30 plate coin; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 4; SCBI 69, 646 this coin; T&S pp. 499-501; Gannon 130-1, 185, 191-2, Fig. 4.34a; Spink 811), bright and lightly porous surfaces, otherwise about extremely fine for issue

provenance
P Revell, July 2009
~ Reportedly found on the Norfolk-Cambridgeshire borders ~

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Sold for
£2,800

Starting price
£320