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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 648

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series R5, "Rigold" (R1X/R1b), radiate bust of crude style right, SPI before, cross and ^ behind, linear pyramidal neck on beaded exergual lines, rev. standard enclosing alternating right-angles and pellets around central annulet, trefoil in tufa above, horns lowered, pellets to sides, unbarred cross pommée below, diagonals to lower corners, 1.03g, 180° (SL 11-70; SCBI 69, 671 this coin; Timms 2020, R5, no. 45; North 153; Spink 813), wisps of porosity, otherwise lustrous, nearly extremely fine and rather desirable thus

provenance
A Blake, November 2012


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Sold for
£320

Starting price
£220