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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 802

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series L, type 18, diademed and draped bust right, almond-shaped eye, long nose from brow, small mouth, wreath-ties unknotted, "Hwiccian" neck, long cross pommée before, rev. figure facing, wearing stripped vestment. standing in crescent boat holding long cross pommée, left, and bird of prey right, pellets on shaft of cross, annulet replaces pellet on left of both boat and cross, 1.10g, 270° (SL 33-40, plate coin; SCBI 69, 468 this coin; Spink 827; T&S pp. 403, 331-4; Gannon 56, no. 222; North 72; Spink 804F), enriched surfaces of bright silver, some minor spotting, otherwise lustrous, good very fine

provenance
N Mills, March 2003

Reportedly found on the Essex-Suffolk border


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Sold for
£280

Starting price
£140