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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 936

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series Q1G, type 59, facing bust, possibly female patron or Christ, bell-shaped hair style, curved eyebrows, straight lips, pellets in field, rev. quadruped standing left, looking back, gaping jaws and tail intertwines legs ending in a pellet, 1.08g, 90° (SL 63-105 plate coin; SCBI 69, 626ff; T&S pp. 492-5; Gannon: 113, 116-7, 154-6, 191-2, Fig. 4.7c, Fig. 4.64b; North 144; Spink 808C), some delamination at peripheries, otherwise nicely toned and uniformly struck, very fine, extremely rare

provenance
R Cook, February 2017

~ Found near Ely (Cambs), December 2016 ~



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