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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 984

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Animal mask, facing feline or fox face, body left, annulet between ears, two pellet-in-annulets right, rev. facing figure, head right, facing, wearing cynehelm and cross-hatched tunic, standing in crescent boat (?) holding bird of prey, right, long cross pommée left, 0.87g, 180° (SL 112-30; SCBI 69, 820 this coin; Spink 829 plate coin), small darkly toned flan, about very fine with traces of porosity, extremely rare

provenance
J Philpotts, July 2007

~ Found at Didcot (Oxon) ~

[EMC 2008.0076 = BNJ Coin Register 2008, no.180)




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£850

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£375