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Auction: 26005 - British and World Coins and Medals: The Martin J Waldron Collection of English Coins
Lot: 431

Northumbria, Eadberht, Secondary Phase (737-758), AR Sceat, Series Y, Class B, EOTBEREhTVI• square O, plain cross pattée, rev. fantastic animal standing left, fields plain, 1.03g [15.90grns], 1h (Elizabeth J E Pirie, "The Ripon Hoard, 1695: Contemporary and Current Interest", BNJ [1982], pp. 90 and 102, Pl. I, no. 1 this coin; SCBI 69 [Abramson], 838; North 178; S.847), some minor surface delamination, otherwise with a rich dark cabinet tone, a pleasing very fine, if not bolder and with an excellent 18th Century pedigree

Provenance

From the Collection of Jon Mann


Morton & Eden 91, 7 December 2017, lot 9


~ Studied by Elizabeth Pirie, 1982 ~


~ Rediscovered by Owen F Parsons, 1947/48 ~


Hardwicke Court (Gloucestershire), housed in a cabinet that belonged to King Charles I, but was presented to Archbishop Sharp by Queen Anne


John Sharp III, Archdeacon of Northumberland (1723-1792)


Abraham Taylor, 1749

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Estimate
£300 to £500

Starting price
£280