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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 305

East Anglia, Beonna (c. 749-760), Sceat, Wilræd, BEN+NAX [BEONNA (RE)X] runic, central pellet, initial cross pommée, rev. +WIL+RED, around central pellet-in-annulet, initial cross, 0.89g. 270° (SL 113-20 plate coin; SCBI 69, 1068a this coin; Archibald et al., 1995, C29, dies 15/4 (the obv. die not listed); Archibald, 1985 and 1995; T&S pp. 601-7, 478; Gannon 165, 168, no. 85, 175-6, Figs 5.10b, Fig. 5.24c, 13, 192; North 430; Spink 945A), porous surfaces, otherwise almost very fine, extremely rare

provenance
Wayne, CNG Triton XX, January 2017, lot 1500
SNC CXV, June 2007, HS2996
~ Found in Eye (Suffolk), 2006 ~
[EMC 2006.0332 = BNJ Coin Register 2007, no. 212 = PAS SF-7D2767]

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Sold for
£3,200

Starting price
£2300