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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 932

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series QIE, type 67b, diademed or capped, draped bust right, wreath ties behind, cross pommée before, pyramidical neck, rev. sea bird or eagle left, large eye, wing raised, three tail feathers, feet splayed, row of three pellets before as if water dripping from beak, 0.94g, 270° (SL 63-70; SCBI 69, 617 this coin; T&S pp. 488-95, 382-5; Gannon 28-29, 39, 53, 65, 87, 101, no. 159, 148-50, 175, 191-2, and Figs. 2.7b, 2.44; MEC 8 Series Qa; North 133; Spink 808A), about very fine and scarce

provenance
M Vosper, November 2010

Reportedly found at King's Lynn or Castle Rising [?] (Norfolk)




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