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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 843

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 32a, diademed and draped bust right, framed in 'keyhole', braided hair, long nose from brow, hand cupping cross pommée before, rev. serpent headed, coiled lion, right, erect ear, long, straight tongue - or priapic, hind limbs coiled above, lines and pellets form fur behind, 1.00g, 180° (SL 40-40; SCBI 69, 420 this coin; North 89; Spink 803C), of bright silver but overtly off-struck, the portrait somewhat rusty, almost very fine, the reverse astonishingly sharp, nearly extremely fine and rare thus

provenance
M Vosper, September 2008

Reportedly found in East Anglia

[EMC 2009.0060}



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