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Auction: 21050 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coins - Part II : Northumbria
Lot: 379

Northumbria, Alchred (765-774), Sceat, beaded borders, +A.L.CHDER, retrograde and bidirectional, A unbarred, pellet after A and L, reversed D, around cross pommée, rev. fantastic animal standing right, foreleg raised, pointed tail emanating from mid-back, cross pommée below, 1.05g, 180° (SL 71-33; SCBI 69 -; North 179; Spink 849), some deposits in recesses, otherwise rich dark tone, of finely incised style, a really bold very fine

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, April 2019
~ Found by W Boyd at Garton-on-the-Wolds (East Yorkshire) ~


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