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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 682

Anglo-Saxon England, Eclectic Series (710-760), Sceat, type 51, Saltire standard, variety P1ai, naked bird-headed figure on right looking across at naked moustached figure left, long cross pommée on stand between, staff each side, rev. saltire in double beaded square, trefoils in angles, pellets in margins, 4.14g (SL 2, 13-80, rev. plate coin; SCBI 69, 722 this coin; Abramson and Bonser, 1999, 101/159; 104/177; 164/174, and Figs. 5.9a, 5.22; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 17j; T&S pp. 524-7, 432-3; North 153; Spink 833), some peripheral verdigris staining, otherwise a bolder very fine, very rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, June 2016

~ Found by L Grace at Wragby (Lincs), 2012 ~


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