Auction Catalogue

12 December 2005

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Important British and World Coins and Banknotes, Numismatic Books

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

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Lot

№ 335

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12 December 2005

Hammer Price:
£350

Early Anglo-Saxon Period, Sceatta, series O, type 38, bust right within circle of pellets and wavy line border, rev. bird right within serpent torque, 0.93g/8h (SCBI Hunterian 117; M p.472; N 95; S 802). Very fine, the die combination very rare (£300-350)

Provenance:
Found on the foreshore of the R. Thames earlier this year