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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 869

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series U, type 23b/d, Unofficial [?], 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 bird (swan ?), striding right, in foliage, pellet outline to neck, pecking berries (or serpent attacking from below), upward curled wing, 1.12g, 0° (SL 45-40; SCBI 69, 792 this coin; MEC 8 Series Ub; North 83; Spink 816), of bright silver with surface porosity, otherwise very fine / a bolder very fine, scarce

provenance
Acquired privately from finder

~ Found by R Spour, near Wetwang (East Yorks), October 2007 ~

[EMC 2008.0074 = BNJ Coin Register 2008, no. 176]




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