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Auction 21000  18 Mar 2021
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Lot 189

Estimate: 350 GBP
Price realized: 1600 GBP
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Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 32a, diademed and richly draped bust right, folds horizontal centrally, vertical at sides, large eye gazing heavenward, small mouth, braided hair, knotted wreath ties behind, hand cupping cross pommée before, bust framed by line of small beads across shoulder, rev. serpent-headed coiled 'lion' right, with curling tongue, vestigial second serpent around, 1.04g, 90° (SL 39-50 plate coin; Abramson, 2012a, Fig 18; 2012b, Fig 1a; SCBI 69, 414 this coin; T&S pp. 395-402, 307-10; Metcalf 2016, 237; Gannon 35, 71, 72, 131, 137, 139-40, 175, 187-8, and Figs. 2.15, 2.48a, 4.44, 4.46b, 4.47, 6.1; North 89; Spink 803D plate coin), cleaned, a bold very fine and extremely rare.
provenance
Acquired privately from finder, April 2006
~ Found by D Panton in south Lincolnshire, by September 2003 ~
[EMC 2006.0273 = BNJ Coin Register 2007, no. 153 = The Searcher, September 2003, pp. 66-69]
Estimate: £500 - £400
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