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LOT 3267
Anglo-Saxon. Primary Sceattas AR Sceatta. Secondary Phase, circa 710-760.
Uncertain mint. Series J, Type 85. Rigold BIIIb. Crude diademed head to right; large cross before / Bird standing to right on cross, pellet before; annulets and pellets flanking. Abramson 16-100; SCBI 67 (Abramson), -; cf. SCBC 802. Extremely Fine. Very rare.(1.18gr, 12mm, 11h.).
Provenance
Found near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, in the 1990s.
Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2025.0146.
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