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Auction: 21070 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part IV: Continental
Lot: 1184

Anglo Saxon-England, Continental Phase (695-740), Sceat, Insular Series, Type 30a, small facing radiate 'Wodan' head with linear moustache and W-shaped beard, pellet cross (?) left, trefoil right, pellet either side of chin, beaded border, rev. two cloaked figures standing, facing, with distinctive hats, left figure with moustache, long staff either side, pellet staff (?) between, beaded border, 1.10g, 180° (SL 105-20 plate coin; SCBI 69, 759 this coin; Spink 835 plate coin), trace porosity with a few surface marks, otherwise of entertaining style, lightly waterworn otherwise very fine, the reverse better still

provenance
P Revell, January 2007
Reportedly found in Norfolk
[EMC 2008.0068 = BNJ Coin Register 2008, no. 179]


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Sold for
£1,000

Starting price
£600