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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 608

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series C (C2ii), type 2 [?], runic, large radiate bust right, crescent ear, lines of beads below diadem, annulet before, symbol and annulet and row of pellets behind, vestigial pyramidical neck, rev. degenerate votive standard with central trefoil, cross pattée to sides, T to each corner, 1.21g, 270° (SL 4-45, plate coin; SCBI 69, 87 this coin; T&S pp. 106-16, 121-31; Gannon 43-4, 43, no. 144, 48; no. 173, 55, 172-3, 184, no. 18, and Figs. 2.29b, Fig. 5.19b; North 41; Spink 779), waterworn on a small flan, otherwise toned, a bolder very fine and very rare

provenance
P Revell, July 2012

Reportedly found in East Anglia

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Sold for
£200

Starting price
£120