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Auction: 21060 - The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part III: Collector's Selection
Lot: 985

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Animal mask, facing feline or fox face, body left, pellet-in-annulets right (three), between ears (one), left (one) and pellet between whiskers, rev. sea bird right, wing raised over back, feet splayed, cross pommée before, beaded and linear borders, 1.02g, 90° (SL 112-60, SCBI 69 824 this coin; Spink 829), some spots of verdigris in recesses and to periphery, otherwise of bright silver, a pleasing very fine or better but for traces of porosity, extremely rare

provenance
M Vosper, January 2015


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£1,400

Starting price
£1350