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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 632

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Saroaldo/Series QIIIB, quadruped right, gaping jaws, trefoil tail raised, pellets behind, similar to fantastic beast of Aldfrith or Series Z reverse, rev. saltire pommée in beaded standard, pseudo-letters in margin with putative reading of assumed moneyer SAROALDO, 0.70g (SL 7-60, plate coin; SCBI 69, 710 this coin; Metcalf, no. 20 and fig 2; Spink 782 plate coin), light porosity, otherwise largely centred, a bolder very fine, extremely rare

provenance
M Vosper, July 2004

~ Found near Boston (Lincs), 2004 ~

[EMC 2004.0119 = BNJ Coin Register 2005, no. 101]

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Sold for
£600

Starting price
£350