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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 804

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, elaborate drapery, rev. figure facing, wearing checked vestment with swirling beaded skirt, standing in crescent boat, holding long cross pommée, left, and bird of prey, right, perch below, pellets on shaft of cross, 0.99g, 270° (SL 33-45, plate coin; SCBI 69, 471 this coin; North 72; Spink 804F), a large fragment of good fabric but somewhat waterworn on obverse, otherwise toned, a bolder fine / very fine

provenance
S Elden, July 2011

~ Found at Alysham, ten miles north west of Norwich (Norfolk) ~

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Sold for
£80

Starting price
£120