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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 302

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Animal Mask Group, feline or fox head facing, body in left field with pellet outline, 3 annulets in right field, 2 between ears and one between whiskers, rev. Seabird right, wings raised over back, feet splayed, trefoil tail, cross pommée before, double beaded border, 0.93g, 110° (SL 112-60 plate coin; Abramson, 2012b, plate; SCBI 69, 823 this coin; T&S pp. 446-8, 354-6; Gannon 133, 134-5, 185, Fig. 4.39; Spink 829 plate coin), some areas of deposit or delamination, and the reverse somewhat off-struck, otherwise toned, the central devices superbly crisp, about extremely fine, excessively rare

provenance
DNW 72, 13 December 2006, lot 32
~ Found by K Easton, 5 miles north west of Ware (Hertfordshire), 2006 ~
[EMC 2007.0027]

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