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Auction 21000  18 Mar 2021
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Lot 254

Estimate: 950 GBP
Price realized: 2100 GBP
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Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series QIE/QIID, laterally reversed, diademed and draped bust left, wreath ties behind, cross pommée and pellets before, pyramidal neck, rev. Quadruped standing right, looking back, gaping jaws, crest right, tail intertwines legs, pellets in field, 1.03g, 270° (SL 63-65 plate coin; SCBI 69, 616 this coin; T&S pp. 488-95, 382-5; Gannon 28-9, 39, 53, 65, 87, 101, no. 159, 148-50, 175, 191-2, and Figs. 2.7b, 2.44; North 133/-; Spink 808A/809), an exceptional example, extremely fine, and extremely rare.
provenance
Acquired privately from finder, October 2016
~ Found on the Ousden-Ligate Parish boundary (West Suffolk), 9 August 2011 ~
[EMC 2017.0038]
Estimate: £1200 - £1000
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