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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 701

Anglo-Saxon England, Eclectic Series (710-760), Sceat, Annulet cross variety, "wedge-face" degenerate bust left, Z-shaped brow and nose, headdress of linear and pellet lines, vestigial runic (?) legend before, short beaded pyramidical neck rests on curved exergual line, rev. annulet cross, a pellet in each annulet, trefoils in angles, within double beaded border, 1.14g (SL 14-40, plate coin; SCBI 69, 751 this coin), lightly toned, a most endearing coin, good very fine and very rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, January 2008

~ Found by K Mitchell at Ripple, between Deal and Dover (Kent), May 2005 ~
[BNJ Coin Register 2006, no. 143]

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Sold for
£500

Starting price
£100