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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 796

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 20, variety 2, diademed and draped bust left, almond-shaped eye, long nose from brow, crescent ear, small mouth, cross-hatched hair with unknotted wreath ties, "Hwiccian" neck, cup in palm, cross pommée before, rev. figure facing, head right, wearing cynehelm and cross-hatched tabard with plain tunic, standing in crescent boat holding long cross pommée, left, and bird of prey, right, pellets on shaft of cross, 0.99g, 0° (SL 33-15, plate coin; SCBI 69, 461 this coin; Spink 803E), of base fabric with granular surfaces with only minor residual traces of silvering, almost fine / nearly very fine, extremely rare

provenance
J Philpotts, September 2012

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Sold for
£80

Starting price
£73