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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 300

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Animal Mask Group, feline or fox head facing, body in left field with pellet outline, 2½ annulets in right field, 2 between ears and one between whiskers, rev. saltire pommée with central annulet quartering inner circle, with Ys in quadrants, 1.03g (SL 112-50 plate coin; SCBI 69, 822 this coin; T&S pp. 446-8, 354-6; Gannon 133, 134-5, 185, Fig. 4.39; Spink 829 plate coin) of solid fabric with attractive toning, a tad off-struck, otherwise good very fine, exceedingly rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, March 2008
~ Found by D Young at Raunds (Northamptonshire), 27th January 2008 ~
[EMC 2009.0047]

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Sold for
£3,500

Starting price
£580