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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 844

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 32a, Imitative, large diademed and draped bust right, long nose from brow, knotted wreath ties behind, cupping cross pommée before, rev. serpent headed, coiled lion, right, long, straight tongue - or priapic, hind limbs coiled above, lines and pellets form fur behind, 0.90g, 345° (SL 40-40; SCBI 69, 421 this coin; North 89; Spink 803C), porous and somewhat corroded, otherwise darkly patinated, the struck details nearly very fine, rare

provenance
TimeLine, July 2004

~ Found on the south bank of the River Thames ~

[EMC 2004.0118 = BNJ Coin Review 2005, no. 112]



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