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Pictured: This Northumbria, Eardwulf, First Reign (796-806), Sceat, sold for £8,400. <br />
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A finance director's remarkable collection of historic Anglo-Saxon coins has sold for a staggering £856,000.<br />
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Tony Abramson, president of the Yorkshire Numismatic Society, started collecting aged four in the 1950s.<br />
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His passion developed during his teenage years and he went to great lengths to bolster his collection in the decades that followed until it reached 1,200 coins.

BNPS.co.uk (01202) 558833.
Pic: Spink&Son/BNPS

Pictured: This Northumbria, Eardwulf, First Reign (796-806), Sceat, sold for £8,400.

A finance director's remarkable collection of historic Anglo-Saxon coins has sold for a staggering £856,000.

Tony Abramson, president of the Yorkshire Numismatic Society, started collecting aged four in the 1950s.

His passion developed during his teenage years and he went to great lengths to bolster his collection in the decades that followed until it reached 1,200 coins.