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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 307

East Anglia, Beonna (c. 749-760), Lead trial piece for a Sceat, BEN+NAX (BEONNA REX) in runic, initial cross, rev. Interlace design, beaded border, 10.11g, 28.5mm (SL 113-40v; SCBI 69, 1070 this coin; BNJ 55 [1985], plate 2, no. 50-52, C71 and C75; cf. North 430; cf. Spink 945), fair to almost fine, a fascinating Anglo-Saxon paranumismatic curiosity, presumed unique

provenance
Acquired privately from the finder, May 2014
~ Found by C Slater, 'near the river in Ripon, one mile from the Cathedral' ~

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Sold for
£520

Starting price
£50