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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 978

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Triquetras, variety 4, seven-eighths facing, mantled, bust in saddleback drapery, knotted wreath ties each side, rev. bird right, pecking berries in foliage, 0.94g, 180° (SL 110-55, plate coin; SCBI 69, 448 this coin; T&S 344, pp. 424-5, no. 4 same obverse die), lightly porous but the portrait struck up, spots of verdigris otherwise almost very fine, rare

provenance
E Vandenbrossche, October 2012

Reportedly found near Troyes in the Champagne area (France)



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Sold for
£250

Starting price
£290