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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 788

Anglo-Saxon England, Eclectic Sceattas (710-760), Sceat, 'Celtic Cross', Series L, style 1 obverse, cowled, standing figure looking right, square shoulders, cross-hatched tabard, holding long cross pomméé either side, rev. broad-limbed Celtic cross with a central quincunx which forms a virtual cross with the pellets on each limb, 0.80g (SL 28-20, plate coin; SCBI 69, 518 this coin; Metcalf 237, Spink 822 obv. plate coin), traces of porosity, otherwise largely centred, a bolder very fine, very rare and better in hand

provenance
N Mills, July 2004

Reportedly found in Cambridgeshire or Suffolk, c.2004 ~

[EMC 2004.0121 = BNJ Coin Register 2005, no. 114]

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