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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 861

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series U, type 23b, female looking right, long hair, round shoulders, standing in crescent boat with pellet finials, holding long cross pommée in enormous hands, rev. disjointed long-necked bird (swan ?) striding right, in foliage, pecking berries (or serpent attacking from below), upward curled wing, 1.20g, 90° (SL 45-10, plate coin; SCBI 69, 782 this coin; T&S pp. 552-67, 445-8; Gannon 66, 87, 89, 91, no. 86 and 88, 93, 117-19, 138, no. 217, 141, 185, and Figs. 3.10a; 3.14, 3.18a, 4.13, 4.49a; MEC 8 Series Ub; North 83; Spink 816 plate coin), of good metal with only faint wisps of porosity, a pleasingly bold very fine and rather pleasing

provenance
N Mills, January 2005

Reportedly found in East Anglia


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£750

Starting price
£300