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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 864

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series U, type 23b, a figure, possible female, standing in crescent boat with pellet finials, looking right, wearing cynehelm? hatched tabard, holding long cross pommée either side in enormous hands, rev. disjointed full-bodied, long-necked bird (swan ?), pellet eye, pellet outline, striding right, in foliage, pecking berries (or serpent attacking from below), upward curled wing, 0.87g, 0° (SL 45-10 plate coin; SCBI 69, 786 this coin; MEC 8 Series Ub; North 83; Spink 816), light porosity and staining spots, otherwise very fine, the reverse bolder

provenance
S Elden, October 2006

Reportedly found in Lincolnshire

[EMC 2005.0035]




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£210

Starting price
£175