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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 749

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series J, type 36, diademed bust right, braided hair, wreath-ties behind, upper lip prominent, long cross pommée before, folds of drapery, rev. two birds, possibly eagles, right, one in foreground has distinctive eye and rounded feet with three tail feathers, cross pommée before, 0.80g, 270° (SL 20-10, plate coin; SCBI 69, 400 this coin; Abramson, 2008, Fig 1; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 24b; North 134; Spink 802D [791A former plate coin]), traces of porosity, otherwise lightly toned and well-centred, a really very good very fine

provenance
M Vosper, April 2004

~ Found near Grimsby (Lincs) ~

[EMC 2004.0073 = BNJ Coin Register 2005, no. 105]

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