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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 819

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series L, type 17, London, diademed bust left, "Hwiccian" neck, almond-shaped eye, long nose from brow, small mouth, wreath-ties unknotted, long cross pommée (or vine scroll?) before, pelleted drapery, rev. long armed, barrel-chested figure facing, feet turned outward, wearing plain robe, holding long cross pommée either side, pellet on shaft of cross, 1.01g, 180° (SL 36-20, plate coin; SCBI 69, 493 this coin; Spink 804E), corroded and porous, otherwise a bolder fine / fair, extremely rare

provenance
TimeLine, October 2005

Reportedly found in Kent

[EMC 2005.0075]

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