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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 733

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series BIII, Imitative, crude diademed head right, slit eye, two pellets form lips, two annulets before, 'Prognasthous' chin, vestigial legend in margin, rev. elongated bird on Maltese cross, pellet in each angle, beaded border, vestigial legend in margin, 1.27g, 270° (SL 2, 16-90, plate coin; SCBI 69, 77; T&S pp. 133-7, 138-9; Gannon: 26, 28, no. 38, 29, 39, 107, no. 5, 160, Fig. 2.2), waterworn and lightly porous, about very fine, rare

provenance
J Philpotts, March 2014

Reportedly found in Kent


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