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Auction: 5014 - The Coinex Sale
Lot: 1295

x Anglo-Saxon, early period, Sceat, 1.00g., series G, diademed bust right, with large almond-shaped eye and hair brushed forward, cross before, rev. standard with three crosses pommee and a quatrefoil of four pellets around central annulet. (c.f. Metcalf 268 var.; N.43; S.808), lightly porous on reverse, otherwise an unusually bold and crisply struck portrait piece, good very fine Estimate £ 150-200PROVENANCE: Found at Driffield, East Yorkshire

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£200