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Auction: 21070 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part IV: Continental
Lot: 1182

Anglo Saxon-England, Continental Phase (695-740), Sceat, Insular Series X, English variety, sombre faced ''Wodan'' head with radiate hair, long curl and trefoil either side, long moustache, neat W shaped beard, branch or serpent left, beaded border, rev. bipedal Series N style monster in flight right, looking back, raised curled tail, claws below, no pellet outline, pellet at end of crest, prominent member [?], line-beaded border, 0.99g, 180° (SL 104-40 plate coin; SCBI 69, 353 this coin; Spink 797A), some partial and erratic surface delamination and other traces of porosity beneath darkly toned fields, otherwise almost very fine for strike

provenance
N Mills, January 2006
Reportedly found in Cambridgeshire


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