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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 971

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Phase (680-710), Sceat, Series W, type 54, facing standing three-quarter length figure looking right, long wispy hair and jutting beard, holding long cross pommée either side in skeletal arms and fingers, seems to be wearing mailcoat [lorica hamata], rev. cross crosslet pommée on saltire cross, central pellet, 1.20g (SL 108-20; SCBI 69, 146 this coin; Metcalf [2016], 58), irregular flan with a 'coffee-brown' patina, near very fine / good very fine

provenance
Acquired privately, February 2001

~ Found by T Blissett and J Patterson, South Lincs, November 2000 ~



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Sold for
£950

Starting price
£550