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Auction: 21070 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part IV: Continental
Lot: 1039

Anglo Saxon-England, Continental Phase (695-740), Sceat, Series D, Type 2c, Variety 3e, large forward-tilted radiate crown on small-faced bust left, on beaded pyramid neck, OAO behind, rev. Greek cross, 0.80g (SL 8-20; SCBI 69, 171 this coin; WOdV 806; Metcalf [2016], 82; North 163; Spink 792), lightly cleaned, bright and lustrous on a broad flan, the cheeky 'jaunty crown' portrait particularly appealing, good very fine, presumably very rare with these stylistic variants

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, April 2006
~ Found by D Panton in the Heckington area (South Lincs), by November 2004 ~
[EMC 2006.0256 = PAS LIN-B316E2 = The Searcher, September 2003, pp. 66-69]

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Sold for
£450

Starting price
£180