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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 915

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series O, type 40 variant, barrel female figure facing, head right, wearing tunic, long cross pommée either side, rev. monster in flight left, looking back, raised leg behind head, fur beneath, clawed foot below, cross pommée over back, 1.20g, 180° (SL 55-40, plate coin; SCBI 69, 604 this coin; Spink 821 plate coin), slightly waterworn, otherwise darkly toned on a dumpy flan, near very fine and extremely rare, considerably better in hand

provenance
K Chapman, March 2010

Reportedly found in Thurrock (Essex), 2005



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Sold for
£290

Starting price
£200