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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 867

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series U, type 23b, female figure looking left, wearing cynehelm, round shoulders, standing in decked crescent boat, small hands, feet left, holding long cross pommée in each hand, rev. disjointed, long-necked bird (swan ?), pellet eye, striding right, in foliage, pecking berries (or serpent attacking from below), upward curled wing, 1.11g, 90° (SL 45-20, plate coin; SCBI 69, 789 this coin; MEC 8 Series Ub; North 83; Spink 816), verdigris-stained, otherwise largely centred, very fine

provenance
P Revell, July 2010

Reportedly found in East Anglia


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Sold for
£180

Starting price
£170