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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 839

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 32a, diademed and draped bust right, framed in 'keyhole', braided hair, long nose from brow, knotted wreath ties behind, hand cupping cross pommée before,
rev. serpent headed, coiled, 'lion' right, with long upward curling tongue extended between fangs, erect ear, circular eye, "feathered" body with beaded outline, only long-clawed forelimbs shown, 0.70g, 180° (SL 2, 40-10, plate coin; SCBI 69, 415a this coin; North 89; Spink 803C), the obverse a touch off-struck with very faint traces of porosity, otherwise darkly patinated, a really pleasingly bold very fine, rare

provenance
M Vosper, January 2017

Reportedly found in East Anglia

[EMC 2017.0035]


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