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Auction: 23051 - English Milled and Hammered Coins and Artefacts
Lot: 1021

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Series L, Type 23e, Sceat, "Serpent whorl", London, standing figure, head right, wearing cynehelm, hatched top and flared skirt, head right, holding long cross pommée either side, globe in beaded circle in left field, with ground line, rev. whorl of three serpent-like heads anticlockwise, linear tongues form tribrach, beaded border, 0.72g (MEC 8 Series LM; SL 43-25; SCBI 69 [Abramson], 557; North 85; Spink 804H), a minor flan split, otherwise well-centred with light field patination, residually lustrous, almost extremely fine, rare, especially in this exemplary condition

Provenance

Found near Washington (West Sussex), 25 March 2023
~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, ref. EMC 2023.0167 ~

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