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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 629

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Saroaldo, type 11, disintegrated bust right with diadem low on forehead, cross above eye in upper angle of nose, pellet lips, crescent ear, ladder collar, two annulets before, rev. cross pommée in beaded diamond with trefoil of pellets in each quadrant, initial cross and legend, 1.13g (SL 7-40; SCBI 69, 142 this coin; Metcalf [2016], 55; T&S pp. 147-51, 151-4; Gannon 49, 128, 172, no. 114, 174, 177, no. 142 and 143, 184 no. 22, 185, and Fig. 4.31; North 44; Spink 784), cleaned and lightly porous, otherwise a bolder very fine, scarce

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, April 2006

~ Found by D Panton in South Lincolnshire ~

[EMC 2006.0263 = BNJ Coin Register 2007, no. 197 = The Searcher, September 2003, pp. 66-69]

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Sold for
£420

Starting price
£180