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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 284

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series S, type 47, stiff-legged female centaur left, torso forward, looking back, wearing cynehelm, holding palm fronds either side, tail intertwines rear legs. Beaded tail with finial end, rev. Wolf-whorl clockwise with elongated tongues joining in beaded spiral cross; central boss, 0.96g (SL 68-20 plate coin; Abramson, 2012b, plate; SCBI 69, 771 this coin; T&S pp. 537-44, 438-41; Gannon 141, 142, no. 240, 151-4, 185, no. 30, and Figs. 4.49b, 4.62; MEC 8 Series Sa; North 121; Spink 814 plate coin), lightly toned but with some deposits on surfaces, a really pleasingly good very fine

provenance
S Adam, November 2005
~ Found between Hougham and Dry Doddington (Lincolnshire) ~
[EMC 2006.0286]

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£350