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Auction: 21050 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coins - Part II : Northumbria
Lot: 380

Northumbria, Alchred (765-774), Sceat, variety iv, beaded borders, +AlCh/RED, bi-directional A barred, R recumbent, central cross pattée, rev. fantastic beast right, cross pattée below, 0.84g, 90° (SL 71-35 plate coin; SCBI 69, 868 this coin; North 179; Spink 849), dusky tone, otherwise of curious but pleasing style, very fine, the obverse better

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, October 2014
~ Found by C Best at Everingham (East Yorkshire) ~
[EMC 2016.0047]


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