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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 756

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series G, type 3a, diademed and draped bust right, with radiating hair, almond-shaped eye, crescent ear and collar, large cross pommée before, rev. beaded standard, central pellet-in-annulet, saltire crosses in corners, pellets between, 0.83g, 0° (SL 21-20; SCBI 69, 311 this coin; Spink 800 plate coin), struck with a slightly soft obverse die, otherwise attractively toned, a truly desirable example for type, extremely fine, rare in so honest a state

provenance
Acquired privately from fine, September 2010

~ Found by T Hooverman at Kilham (East Yorks), October 2008 ~

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Sold for
£350

Starting price
£250