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Auction: 21000 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 330

Anglo-Saxon England, Continental Series (695-740), Sceat, 'Wodan' type 30a, oval radiate 'Wodan' head facing, with beaded outline, circular eyes and mouth, linear moustache and W-shaped beard, pellets in field, rev. two naked figures standing, left figure facing, bone shaped moustached, wearing hat, bird-headed figure on right looking left, long staff either side, long cross pommée on stand between, 1.08g, 200° (SL 105-10 plate coin; Abramson, 2012b, plate; SCBI 69, 758 this coin; T&S pp. 527-31, 429-31; Gannon 29, 148-50, 177, no. 142; 184, Fig. 4.58a; MEC 8 Series FBa; North 170; Spink 835), trace surface porosity, otherwise delightfully centred, a really bold very fine, rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, December 2008
~ Found by N Henry-Robertson at Hothfield, Great Chart, near Ashford (Kent) ~
[EMC 2009.0070 = PAS KENT E-83372]

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