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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 808

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series L, type 15 variety, diademed and draped bust right, matted hair, almond-shaped eye, small mouth, unknotted wreath-ties, long cross pommée before, pellets on shaft of cross, rev. cowled, square-shouldered, figure, facing, head left, wearing pleated smock, standing in crescent boat holding long cross pommée, right, and backward-looking, linear bird of prey, left, perch below, exergual (water or deck?) line, 0.80g, 90° (SL 33-70; SCBI 69, 475 this coin; Abramson, T., 2012a, Fig 25; T&S pp. 374-5; Gannon 59, 60, 70-2, Figs. 2.67 and 2.68a; North 68; Spink 804C), some spots of corrosion and lightly porous, otherwise a bolder very fine, extremely rare

provenance
Baldwin, May 2002


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£1,300

Starting price
£370