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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 325

Anglo-Saxon England, Continental Series (695-740), Sceat, Series E/G, variety K, 'Plumed bird' right, bulbous body, pellet below neck with head curved round pellet-in-annulet, row of pellets above head, rev. beaded standard with central pellet-in-annulet and saltires in corners separated by trefoils. Crosses and pellets in margins, 1.12g (SL 87-40 plate coin; SCBI 69, 198 this coin; T&S pp. 196-221; JMP 96-7; Gannon 48, no. 173, 113, 172-4, Figs. 4.7a, 5.21b, 5.26a; Spink 791/800), some residual deposits, otherwise about extremely fine and a coin of considerable importance to the chronology and discontinuity of Northumbrian coinage between Aldfrith and Eadberht

provenance
A Gillis, March 2011
~ Reportedly found in the Pocklington area (Yorkshire) ~
[EMC 2012.0044 = BNJ Coin Register 2012, no. 66]


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Sold for
£850

Starting price
£350