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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 894

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series N, type 41a, two standing figures facing each other wearing cynehelms and plain tunics, long staff between held in rounded arms, small cross pommée either side, feet angled downwards on line border, rev. monster in flight left, looking back, tail with pellet end in gaping jaws, long crest behind, pelleted outline, prominent member, clawed feet below, 1.30g, 90° (SL 52-20, plate coin; SCBI 69, 569 this coin; North 99; Spink 806), lightly waterworn and toned, otherwise almost very fine, the reverse better, very rare

provenance
'Stock of the late Patrick Finn', Baldwin 38, 4 October 2004, lot 44

Finn, FPL 16, 1999, no. 56


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