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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 948

Anglo-Saxon England, Continental Phase (695-740), Sceat, Series E, variety "G5", quilled crescent curved right, enclosing "Moon face" right, XAZA before (cf Series E variety G4), rev. legend reading VVILL[…] retrograde around beaded standard enclosing crosier and Y-shaped element, pelleted tufa below, 1.10g, 180° (SL 89-50; SCBI 69, 216 this coin; Abramson 2008, Fig 17; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 15a; cf. BMC type 10; SEMC2, T&S pp. 243-45, 258-62; JMP 96-7; Gannon 161, Fig. 5.6a; Spink 790G plate coin), slightly porous with darker cabinet tone and deposits in recesses, a really bold very fine, extremely rare

provenance
Acquired privately from finder, September 2005

~ Found by B Knight at Littlestoke, near Wallingford (Oxon) ~

[EMC 2005.0270 = BNJ Coin Register 2006, no. 95]



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Sold for
£520

Starting price
£95