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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 831

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 33, London connected, diademed bust of "Hwiccian" style left, almond-shaped eye, unknotted wreath ties behind, cross pommée before, rev. lion head left, chevron mane, erect ear, pellet eye, snake-tongue curling below in S shape, trefoil before, line of pellets above, 0.95g, 0° (SL 38-30, SCBI 69, 433 this coin; T&S pp. 388-91 and 405, 306; North 93; Spink 803), porous and darkly patinaed, otherwise a pleasingly bold very fine, scarce with faint traces of silvering

provenance
M Vosper, January 2007


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Sold for
£300

Starting price
£400