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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 879

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series H, type 49, variety 5, Hamwic, central face in beaded circle, five roundels, quincunx below, rev. peacock striding right, head feathers raised, pellet-in-annulet above, and behind, quincunx before, pellets in field, 0.79g, 270° (SL 48-650, Existence of type predicted in Sceatta List; SCBI 69, -; North 108, Spink 801A), slightly ragged at edge and some rub to portrait, otherwise well-centred, a bolder very fine, the type once thought speculative, now confirmed but presumed unique

provenance
Acquired privately from finder

~ Found by A Dennis at St Mary's Church, Laverstoke (Hants), January 2020 ~

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Sold for
£700

Starting price
£500