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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 821

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K/N, type 16/41 mule, facing figure standing, looking left, wearing cynehelm and cross-hatched tabard with flared tunic, holding long cross pommée in both hands left, 'true vine' (crux foliata?) or bow right, feet splayed, rev. crested monster left, looking back, crest left, gaping jaws, pellet outline, curled tail raised, clawed feet below, 0.90g, 0° (SL 2, 37-40; SCBI 69, 546 this coin; Spink 828), porous with core exposed on high points and silvering largely intact in fields, otherwise a bolder fine, extremely rare

provenance
P Revell, July 2015

Reportedly found in East Anglia


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Sold for
£60

Starting price
£75