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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 799

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 20, diademed and 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, 0.97g, 0° (SL 33-25; SCBI 69, 464 this coin; Spink 803E), staining spot to face, otherwise of sound fabric with only muted traces of porosity, lightly toned, a bolder very fine, very rare

provenance
J Philpotts, July 2014

M Vosper, January 1998

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Sold for
£475

Starting price
£500