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Auction 21000  18 Mar 2021
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Lot 208

Estimate: 450 GBP
Price realized: 1300 GBP
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Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series U related, Tribrach type, full bodied bird with large round pellet eye, curling crest streaming from top of head, curled raised wing, triple tail, striding right, rev. Tribrach enclosing pelleted letters T and I, 0.74g (SL 45-90 plate coin; Abramson U800 same dies; SCBI 69, 800 this coin, Naismith [BNJ 78, 2008], "Tribrach pennies of Eadberht 'Praen' of Kent and Eadwald of East Anglia" pp. 217, Fig 2; Spink -), a fascinating coin and clear precedent for the later and more familiar Tribrach issues of Mercia, some trace porosity, otherwise very fine, the second presently known.
provenance
~ Found at Greywell (Hamsphire), May 2016 ~
Estimate: £700 - £500
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