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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 862

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series U, type 23b, female figure standing in crescent boat with pellet finials, looking right, holding long cross pommée either side in enormous hands, rev. disjointed full-bodied, long-necked bird (swan ?), pellet eye, striding right, in foliage, pecking berries (or serpent attacking from below), upward curled wing, 1.19g, 135° (SL 45-10, plate coin; SCBI 69, 784 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), trace porosity and minor verdigris spots, otherwise well centred and of brighter silver, nearly extremely fine, scarce in this condition

provenance
A Gillis, September 2007

~ Found ten miles north of Driffield (East Yorks), Summer 2007 ~

[EMC 2008.0073 = BNJ Coin Register 2008, no. 175]





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