| Spink > Auction 23051 | Auction date: 27 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 1021 Price realized: 1,300 GBP (Approx. 1,651 USD / 1,524 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Series L, Type 23e, Sceat, "Serpent whorl", London, standing figure, head right, wearing cynehelm, hatched top and flared skirt, head right, holding long cross pommée either side, globe in beaded circle in left field, with ground line, rev. whorl of three serpent-like heads anticlockwise, linear tongues form tribrach, beaded border, 0.72g (MEC 8 Series LM; SL 43-25; SCBI 69 [Abramson], 557; North 85; Spink 804H), a minor flan split, otherwise well-centred with light field patination, residually lustrous, almost extremely fine, rare, especially in this exemplary condition. Provenance, Found near Washington (West Sussex), 25 March 2023 ~ Recorded with the Fitzwilliam Museum, ref. EMC 2023.0167 ~ Estimate: £800 - £1200 |  |
