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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 630

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Saroaldo, type 11, disintegrated bust right with diadem low on forehead, angular nose, pellet lips, crescent ear, ladder collar, annulet before, rev. cross pattée in beaded diamond with trefoil of pellets in each quadrant, initial cross and legend, 1.20g (SL 7-40; SCBI 69, 143 this coin; 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), rich toning with only partial striking softness before face and in corresponding area of reverse, otherwise attractively centred, good very fine, rare thus

provenance
M Vosper, September 2005

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Sold for
£550

Starting price
£285