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Auction: 21070 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part IV: Continental
Lot: 1187

Anglo Saxon-England, Continental Phase (695-740), Sceat, Insular Series, Type 30 mule, narrow facing radiate 'Wodan' head, as if through keyhole, with distinctive brow and exuberant flowing hair and beard, rev. mirrored figures facing, wearing striped smocks, long cross pommée on trident between, pellets above, cross pommée either [?] side, beaded border inside chevron border, beaded border, chevrons in margin, 1.00g, 0° (SL 105-80 plate coin; SCBI 69, 763 this coin), a large and stable fragment on a chunkier flan, an imposing portrait framed by richer dark patination, a really bold very fine and a most interesting albeit incomplete variety

provenance
T Owen, February 1996



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£140

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£50