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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 793

Anglo-Saxon England, Eclectic Sceattas (710-760), Sceat, 'Rosette', diademed bust right, large eye, eyebrow and nose joined, crescent ear, rosette and cusp before, unknotted wreath ties, rev. barrel-chested, standing figure, looking right, wearing cynehelm, angular arms, ribbed chest, pleated skirt, feet spread, long cross pommée either side, 0.74g, 300° (SL 32-40; SCBI 69, 527 this coin; T&S pp. 402-5, 314-18; Gannon 66, 97, no. 131, 187-8, Figs. 2.61, 3.20b, and 6.1; Spink 823), chipped above head, otherwise of good metal, a most striking classically-inspired portrait, almost extremely fine or better but for striking flatness to reverse, extremely rare

provenance
J Philpotts, September 2008

~ Found by P Slack at Fulbeck (Lincs), 2006 ~

[EMC 2008.0335]

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£600

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£600