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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 823

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, 1.07g, 90° (SL 37-40; SCBI 69, 545 this coin; Spink 828), chipped and corroded with heavy deposits on surfaces, otherwise almost very fine with traces of silvering, extremely rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, July 2010

~ Found by L Ross at Cliffe, near Rochester (Kent) ~

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£200

Starting price
£300