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Auction: 21070 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part IV: Continental
Lot: 1161

Anglo Saxon-England, Continental Phase (695-740), Sceat, Imported Silver, Hybrid of Series G & E or G/type 70 mule [?], beaded standard enclosing central annulet with cross pommée and pellet in each corner, pellets and lines in margin, rev. diamond standard, central pellet-in-annulet, saltire cross in each corner, pellets between, 1.33g (SL 101-30 plate coin; SCBI 69, 1117 this coin; Abramson, 2008, Fig 39; SEMC2), the obverse emulating contemporary garnet-inlaid jewellery, hints of striking softness to high points, a bolder very fine, extremely rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, May 2006
~ Found by J Butterley at Kirmington, South Humberside ~
[EMC 2006.0264]


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£500

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