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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 320

Anglo-Saxon England, Continental Series (695-740), Sceat, Series D (2c), variety 4c, radiate bust of fine style left, runes (?) before, chevron behind, beaded pyramid neck on two straight exergual lines with chevrons below, rev. central cross, pellets in angles, blundered legend around with initial cross pommée and pellet-in-annulet below, 0.97g, 180° (SL 8-20 plate coin; SCBI 69, 173 this coin; T&S pp. 184-90, 158-82; JMP 96-7; Gannon 43-4, 43 no. 144, 48, no. 173, 55, 172-3, 184, no. 18, Figs. 2.29b, 5.19b; MEC 8 Series Da; North 168; Spink 792), sumptuous cabinet tone framing outstandingly bold devices, a most attractive coin, much as struck, a rarity thus

provenance
A MacKay, March 2010
SNC, September 1995, no. 6157


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Sold for
£580

Starting price
£230