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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 856

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, beaded tongues form tribrach, beaded border, 0.90g (SL 43-10; SCBI 69, 554 this coin; T&S pp. 451-2, 359-62; Gannon 93, 185, no. 31, Fig. 3.18a; Gannon 135-6, Fig. 4.66; MEC 8 Series LM; North 85; Spink 804H), porous and rather base, a bolder fine / very fine, scarce

provenance
S Elden, October 2005

Found north of Cambridgeshire

[EMC 2005.0265 = BNJ Coin Register 2006, no. 118]



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