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Auction 21000  18 Mar 2021
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Lot 212

Estimate: 2000 GBP
Price realized: 2400 GBP
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Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series H, Hamwic, small central bird in beaded inner circle, surrounded by 9 bosses, rev. Pecking bird in beaded foliage right, wing raised and curled, feet splayed, rosette before, pellets below, 0.94g, 0° (SL 48-10 plate coin; T&S pp. 333-40, 289-92; Gannon 174, 180, Fig. 5.5; North -; Spink -), a remarkable example of the Dark Age numismatic art form, some stressing in fields, otherwise about extremely fine, of the highest rarity, the second known.
provenance
Acquired privately from finder, September 2017
~ Found by A Staples at Basingstoke (Hants) ~
Estimate: £2500 - £2000
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