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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 855

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, "Serpent whorl", Series L, type 23e, London, standing figure, head right, wearing cynehelm, hatched top and flared skirt, head right, holding long cross pommée either side, ground line, rev. whorl of three serpent-like heads anticlockwise, linear tongues form tribrach, beaded border, 0.93g (SL 43-10, plate coin; SCBI 69, 555 this coin; Abramson, 2012a, Fig 24; T&S pp. 451-2, 359-62; Gannon 93, 185, no. 31, Fig. 3.18a; MEC 8 Series LM; North 85; Spink 804H), darker patination and largely centred, otherwise a bolder very fine, and of sound fabric

provenance
Andrew Wayne, CNG 72, June 2006, lot 2446

Finn, FPL 17, 1999, no. 42




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Sold for
£380

Starting price
£275