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Auction: 21050 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coins - Part II : Northumbria
Lot: 372

Northumbria, Alchred (765-774), Sceat, variety i. beaded borders, ALCHDER, part retrograde, A unbarred, L inverted, around cross pattée, rev. fantastic animal standing right, foreleg raised, raised, pointed tail emanating from mid-back, cross pattée below, 0.90g, 270° (SL 71-10 plate coin, Abramson, 2012b, Fig 10a; SCBI 69, 862 this coin; North 179; Spink 849 plate coin), a hint of surface porosity, otherwise a wonderfully centred and uniformly struck example, about extremely fine, rare thus

provenance
M Vosper, September 2004
~ Reportedly found east of York, 2003 ~

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Sold for
£2,300

Starting price
£700