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Auction: 21070 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part IV: Continental
Lot: 1087

Anglo Saxon-England, Continental Phase (695-740), Sceat, Series E, Variety "G5", lettering across field, quilled crescent with triangular head enclosing pellet, ¹ below, lettering around, rev. ornate central ä (moneta?), ¹ below, letters around, 1.13g, 90° (SL 89-60 plate coin; SCBI 69, 217 this coin; Spink 790D), traces of surface porosity, otherwise accentuated by flares of bluish toned, in sharp relief, extremely fine and of the highest rarity with only three examples recorded

provenance
P Milligan, April 2014
~ Found at Sheriff Hutton (North Yorks) ~


The other known specimens are:
(1) C. S. S. Lyon, found by J. Short, Barham (Kent), 1982

(2) Found by Kevin Easton, near Ware (Herts)


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