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Auction 21000  18 Mar 2021
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Lot 199

Estimate: 450 GBP
Price realized: 500 GBP
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Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, 'Serpent Whorl', Series L, type 23e, London, standing female figure wearing long plain tunic, holding long cross pommée either side, no ground line, rev. whorl of three serpent-like heads clockwise, tongues form tribrach, 0.90g (SL 43-40 plate coin; SCBI 69, 558 this coin; T&S pp. 451-2, 359-62. Gannon 93, 185, no. 31, Fig. 3.18a; MEC 8 Series LM; North 85; Spink 804H), an irregular flan with some striking splits and surface roughness, otherwise about very fine and presumed unique.
provenance
J Tout, October 2014
~ Found by B Paites on the Thames Foreshore, 5 May 2013 ~
[EMC 2013.0166 = PAS LON-3E64B5]
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Martin Allen (pers. comms.) noted: "this is an excellent example of Series L (Type 23e). Other specimens have been found in the Thames at Lambeth and at Tilbury, and this discovery adds further weight to the notion that these coins may have been minted in London, although they are also found elsewhere in England."
Estimate: £600 - £500
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