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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 800

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, square of four pellets above chalice, 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, 0.84g, 180° (SL 33-30; SCBI 69, 465 this coin; Spink 803E plate coin), verdigris spot on reverse and slightly porous surfaces, otherwise very fine, rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, December 2006

~ Found by K Easton, 'five miles north west of Ware (Herts)~
[EMC 2007.0014]

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£150

Starting price
£250