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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 772

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series B or G/J mule (formerly Series BIIIB), diademed head right, braided hair, angular nose and ear, lower lip prominent, round chin, cross before, rev. dove on cross, left, annulets either side, pellets below, blundered legend in margin, 0.90g, 135° (SL 22-10; SCBI 69, 330 this coin; SEMC2, Metcalf no. 91; T&S pp. 345-53, 293-5; Spink 800/802), a remarkable Sceat with only faint wisps of porosity, otherwise almost extremely fine, very rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder

~ Found by P Harris at Warminster, November 2003 ~


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Sold for
£290

Starting price
£162