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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 288

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series S, type 47, stiff-legged female centaur left, torso forward, looking back, spiky hair, holding palm fronds either side, beaded tail with finial end right, under wing, rev. Wolf-whorl clockwise with elongated tongues joining in beaded spiral cross; central rosette, 0.84g (SL 68-80 plate 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), slight surface porosity, otherwise very fine, very rare

provenance
J Philpotts, March 2017
~ Found at Ewelme (Oxfordshire) ~

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Sold for
£700

Starting price
£350