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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 714

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series BIB, type 27b, diademed bust right, bead before, braided hair, crescent ear, shoulder breaking beaded circle, blundered legend in margin, rev. bird, possibly a dove, on cross pattée, annulet either side and before bird, beaded serpent circle, starting at 6 o'clock, blundered legend in margin, three annulets below, 1.10g, 90° (SL 16-10; T&S pp. 94-105, 107-12; Gannon 36, 47, 48, no. 173, 107-10, 112, 136, 184, 184, no. 18, and Figs. 2.18a, 4.1b, 4.5; North 126; Spink 777), light porosity otherwise more darkly toned than last, and on a fuller flan, very fine

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, March 2019

~ Found by W Boyd, near Aldershot (Hants) ~


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