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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 748

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series J, type 37, Imitative, crude diademed heads with braided hair, facing each other with a trident long cross between, rev. a whorl of four birds, in a crude linear style, themselves forming a cross anticlockwise around the central cross pommée, 0.80g (SL 19-40, plate coin; SCBI 69, 390 this coin; T&S p. 361-7, 301-2; Gannon 48, no. 170; 55; no. 215, 114-5, Fig. 4.8; North 135; Spink 802A), slightly rough with the copper rather exposed, otherwise very fine, extremely rare

provenance
B J Dawson, April 2004


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