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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 310

Northumbria, Eadberht (738-758), Sceat, Series Y, EOTBEREhTVl·, around cross pommée on raised boss, initial E and cross ligate, rev. Animal flying right pseudo-balletically, pellets in field, 0.90g, 180° (SL 70-90 plate coin; Abramson 2018b; SCBI 69, 839 this coin; T&S pp. 576-93, 454-70; Gannon 87, 91, no. 83, 92, 127, 129, no. 149, 154, 167, no. 85, 190, no. 74, 192, and Figs. 3.16, 4.27, 4.29a, 4.64a; North 178; Spink 847), chipped and lightly porous, otherwise toned, almost very fine and extremely rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, November 2011
~ Found by C Best at Fimber (East Yorkshire) ~
[EMC 2012.0035 = BNJ Coin Register 2012, no. 80]

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Sold for
£520

Starting price
£500