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Auction: 21050 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coins - Part II : Northumbria
Lot: 389

Northumbria, Ælfwald I (779/80-788), Sceat, class E, AlEVAlDVS+ S reversed, Ælfwald, around cross pattée, vestigial beaded borders, rev. fantastic animal standing right, foreleg raised, raised tail looped, pointing down, enclosing rosette, cross pattée below, 0.90g, 270° (SL 73-60 plate coin; SCBI 69, 876 this coin; North 181; Spink 851 plate coin), flan split, chipped and porous, otherwise very fine, very rare

provenance
P Spencer, September 2002
~ Found 'on a Roman road near Upper Poppleton' (Yorkshire), early 2000 ~



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Sold for
£450

Starting price
£300