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Auction: 22005 - British and World Coins - Spring Auction
Lot: 4

Anglo-Saxon England, Eclectic Sceattas (710-760), Sceat, Swan, hen or cockerel left, wing raised, fantail, comb, standing in foliage and pecking berries, rev. large bird, possibly a swan or goose, right, wing over back, long tail feathers, turning head to peck berries suspended above, foliage below, 0.96g, 180° (Abramson III, 892 this coin; SL 51-10, plate coin; SCBI 69, 807 this coin; T&S pp. 459-67, 368-72; Gannon 101, 103, 104, nos. 177 and 179, 148-50, Figs. 3.24, 3.26, and Fig. 4.58 b-c; North -; Spink 825), slight delamination at peripheries, otherwise only fair, but extremely rare

provenance
S Calver, June 2008

~ Found at Linton (Cambs) ~

[EMC 2009.0052]



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Sold for
£160

Starting price
£120