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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 829

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 33 variety, diademed bust right, with saddleback drapery or armour, long plain wreath ties behind, (nose guard?) pellet on cross, drapery D1, rev. lion head right, chevron mane, erect ear, pellet eye, tongue curling in triquetra below, from broken die, 1.00g, 90° (SL 38-10, obv. plate coin; SCBI 69, 430 this coin; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 1a; Gannon, 2003, Fig. 2.49; North 93; Spink 803), a heavily broken reverse die with some corrosion, otherwise darkly patinated, very fine

provenance
T Owen, February 1995

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Sold for
£160

Starting price
£100