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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 822

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K/N, type 16/41 variety, 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, 0.97g, 0° (SL 2, 37-40, plate coin; SCBI 69, 544 this coin; Spink 828), split flan with copper core exposed at edges, otherwise silvering largely intact, the struck details very fine, extremely rare

provenance
J Philpotts, January 2014

~ Found at Hannington (Hants) ~

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Estimate
£250 to £350

Starting price
£240