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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 779

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, 'Money of the Saints', Series T derivative, E LVNDONIM, diademed bust right, almond-shaped eye, wreath ties behind, rev. quilled crescent left enclosing three bars, symbol below, 1.15g, 90° (SL 2, 25-50, plate coin; SCBI 69, 534 this coin; T&S pp. 435-6, 348; Naismith, 2014a, pp. 68-121; T&S pp. 416-21, 336-40; Gannon 76, 87, 95, 98, 140, no. 231, 181, 189, no. 62, Figs. 3.19c, 3.22a and 4.48b), a truly extraordinary coin, with only faint porosity encroaching on lightly toned and richly engraved fields, a marvellous example, almost extremely fine, and of the highest rarity in this condition

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, December 2014

~ Found by B Scott at Canterbury (Kent) ~



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Sold for
£2,700

Starting price
£900