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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 285

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 anticlockwise with elongated tongues joining in beaded spiral cross; central boss, 1.21g (SL 68-30 plate coin; SCBI 69, 772 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), the obverse slightly off-struck, otherwise bright surfaces, almost extremely fine, and highly pleasing

provenance
Beowulf, CNG 75, 23 May 2007, lot 1429
M Vosper, January 2002
~ Found at Hitchin (Hertfordshire), December 2000 ~
[EMC 2008.0072 = BNJ Coin Register 2008, no. 172]

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Sold for
£800

Starting price
£380