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Auction 21000  18 Mar 2021
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Lot 202

Estimate: 500 GBP
Price realized: 1400 GBP
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Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series U, type 23b, female looking right, long hair, round shoulders, standing in crescent boat with pellet ends, holding long cross pommée in each enormous hand, rev. disjointed long-necked bird (swan ?) striding right in foliage, pecking berries (or serpent rising from below), upward curled wing, 1.08g, 0° (SL 45-10 plate coin; SCBI 69, 783 this coin; T&S pp. 552-67, 445-8; Gannon 66, 87, 89, 91, no. 86 and 88, 93, 117-19, 138, no. 217, 141, 185, and Figs. 3.10a; 3.14, 3.18a, 4.13, 4.49a; MEC 8 Series Ub; North 83; Spink 816), the obverse a touch off-centre and some flecked verdigris, otherwise toned, good very fine.
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J Philpotts, February 2011
~ Reportedly found near Cambridge ~
Estimate: £600 - £500
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