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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 863

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series U, type 23b, female figure standing in crescent boat with pellet finials, looking right, dishevelled hair, 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, 0.80g, 270° (SL 45-10; SCBI 69, 785 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), slight peripheral roughness, otherwise toned, about very fine

provenance
P Elkins, October 2004

~ Found at Roydon, near Diss (Norfolk), 2004 ~

[EMC 2005.0035 = BNJ Coin Register 2006, no. 146]



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