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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 908

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series N related, Imitative, monster in flight left, looking back, gaping jaws, thin raised tail, pellet outline, clawed feet below, rev. beaded standard, central rosette, saltires in angles, three pellets in margin above, one to other sides, 0.85g (SL 53-30, plate coin; SCBI 69, 552 this coin; T&S pp. 477-81; Gannon 137, 148-50, Figs. 3.17, 4.43, and 4.60), a most exquisite and striking Anglo-Saxon paragon, handsomely centred and lightly toned with residual flashes of lustre, a really very pleasingly good very fine, extremely rare

provenance
M Vosper, April 2008

Reportedly found in Norfolk

[EMC 2009.0066]





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