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Auction 21060  30 Sep 2021
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Lot 839

Starting price: 800 GBP
Price realized: 1900 GBP
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Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 32a, diademed and draped bust right, framed in 'keyhole', braided hair, long nose from brow, knotted wreath ties behind, hand cupping cross pommée before,, rev. serpent headed, coiled, 'lion' right, with long upward curling tongue extended between fangs, erect ear, circular eye, "feathered" body with beaded outline, only long-clawed forelimbs shown, 0.70g, 180° (SL 2, 40-10, plate coin; SCBI 69, 415a this coin; North 89; Spink 803C), the obverse a touch off-struck with very faint traces of porosity, otherwise darkly patinated, a really pleasingly bold very fine, rare.
provenance
M Vosper, January 2017,
Reportedly found in East Anglia,
[EMC 2017.0035]

Estimate: £800 - £1000
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