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Auction: 21070 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part IV: Continental
Lot: 1059

Anglo Saxon-England, Continental Phase (695-740), 'Maastricht' Interlace, Sceat, diademed bust right, striated hair, beaded pyramid neck, sloping eye, two pellets and cross before, vistigial beaded border, rev. interlaced cross of limbs with pellet ends, central pellet and different number of pellets in quadrants, beaded border, 0.84g (SL 60-20 plate coin; SCBI 69, 304 this coin; Abramson 2008, Fig 25a; T&S pp. 265; Spink 795 [831, former plate coin]), a trace off-struck to reverse, otherwise mottled darker tone, a really pleasingly bold very fine, a handsome classicised portrait

provenance
Acquired privately from the finder, July 2006
~ Found by R Spout at Rudston (East Yorks) ~
[EMC 2006.0269]

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Sold for
£320

Starting price
£250