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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 870

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series U, type 23d, female figure looking right, wearing cynehelm and 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 clusters of berries (or serpent attacking from below), upward curled wing, 1.00g, 0° (SL 45-50, plate coin; SCBI 69, 793 this coin; MEC 8 Series Ub; North 83; Spink 816), light porosity, otherwise largely centred, a bolder very fine, scarce

provenance
T Owen, January 1999


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Sold for
£230

Starting price
£205