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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 798

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 20, diademed, draped bust left, almond-shaped eye, long nose from brow, small mouth, cross-hatched hair with knotted 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, perch below, pellets on shaft of cross, 0.90g, 270° (SL 33-20, plate coin; SCBI 69, 462 this coin; Spink 803E plate coin), struck with broken dies and somewhat waterworn, fine to almost very fine in parts, scarce

provenance
T Owen, January 1995

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Sold for
£240

Starting price
£187