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Auction: 21070 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part IV: Continental
Lot: 1069

Anglo Saxon-England, Continental Phase (695-740), Sceat, Series E, Variety K, 'Plumed bird' type, Laterally reversed, bird left, rev. beaded standard with pellet in annulets centrally and in corners separated by pellets, a cross each side [?], 1.11g (SL 87-20 plate coin; SCBI 69, 196 this coin; Spink 791), a trace of surface porosity, otherwise handsomely centred on a broader flan, light tone, somewhat accentuated at peripheries, almost extremely fine, rare, especially in this condition for the variety

provenance
P G Humphrey, January 2005
~ Found at Barham (Kent), June 2002 ~
[EMC 2005.0001 = BNJ Coin Register 2006, no. 81]

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Sold for
£550

Starting price
£114