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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 807

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series L, type 18, diademed and draped bust right, almond-shaped eye, crescent ear, wreath-ties unknotted, long cross pommée before, rev. cowled figure in planked crescent boat, looking right, wearing loose cloak, holding long cross pommée left, in looped arm, pellets on shaft of cross, chevron to left, hawk and perch right, below beak cross pommée arising from trefoil-berried branch below perch, 1.15g, 270° (SL 33-60; SCBI 69, 474 this coin; North 72; Spink 804F), flan split through bust, otherwise of somewhat base but bright fabric, a bolder very fine, and presumed unique

provenance
S Elden, November 2005

Reportedly found in Cambridgeshire

[EMC 2006.0272]

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Sold for
£170

Starting price
£110