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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 286

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. Linear tail, rev. Wolf-whorl clockwise with elongated tongues joining in beaded spiral cross; central boss, 0.80g (SL 68-40 plate coin; SCBI 69, 773 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), deposits in recesses, otherwise a really bold very fine

provenance
M Vosper, July 2005

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Sold for
£1,000

Starting price
£300