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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 868

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series U, type 23b/d, Imitative [?], female figure looking right, wearing cynehelm and pleated smock, standing in crescent boat, small hands holding long cross pommée either side, rev. disjointed, long-necked, feathered bird (swan ?), striding right, in foliage, pecking berries (or serpent attacking from below), upward curled wing, 1.02g, 270° (SL 45-40, plate coin; SCBI 69, 791 this coin; MEC 8 Series Ub; North 83; Spink 816), light porosity, otherwise darker patination, a bolder very fine but for peripheral striking softness, scarce

provenance
K Chapman, February 2009

~ Found at Whitby (Yorks), 2008 ~

[EMC 2010.0022 = BNJ Coin Register 2010, no. 136]



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Sold for
£350

Starting price
£160