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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 789

Anglo-Saxon England, Eclectic Sceattas (710-760), Sceat, Celtic cross variety/Series K, type 32a mule, wolf whorl, bifurcated tongue, beaded body, three pellets enclosed, rev. limbs of Celtic cross narrow to a single line with rosettes nearly touching, a pellet cross superimposed, in linear style, 1.06g (SL 30-10, plate coin; SCBI 69, 523 this coin; Spink 822 plate coin), some partial striking softness on head and in corresponding area of reverse, otherwise toned and struck in remarkably high relief for issue, very fine and rather pleasing, presumed unique

provenance
M Vosper, November 2007

Reportedly found in the north Cambridgeshire / Wash area

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Sold for
£1,800

Starting price
£450