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Auction 21000  18 Mar 2021
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Lot 287

Estimate: 290 GBP
Price realized: 1000 GBP
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Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series S, type 47, stiff-legged female centaur left, torso forward, looking back, wearing cynehelm, holding palm fronds either side, tail intertwines rear legs, linear tail with finial end, rev. Wolf-whorl clockwise with elongated tongues joining in beaded spiral cross; central boss, 1.00g (SL 68-50 plate coin; SCBI 69, 774 this coin; T&S pp. 537-44, 438-41; Gannon 141, 142, no. 240, 151-4, 185, no. 30, and Figs. 4.49b, 4.62; MEC 8 Series Sa; North 121; Spink 814), a most delightful example, some surface deposits, otherwise extremely fine.
provenance
S Elden, October 2005
~ Reportedly found in Cambridgeshire ~
[EMC 2005.0264 and EMC 2006.0287 = BNJ Coin Register 2006, no. 144]
Estimate: £400 - £300
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