Tony Abramson has studied the small, early Anglo-Saxon silver coinage, referred to as sceats for the last twenty years. He has organised a series of symposia held at both the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds. These have resulted in the publication of papers presented at the symposia together with other material in Studies in Early Medieval Coinage, edited by Tony and published by Boydell & Brewer. Volume 3 is under preparation.

He has also published a number of stand-alone books. The first, Sceattas: An Illustrated Guide, sold 1,500 copies and was short-listed for the inaugural North Book Prize. This is now complemented by the much more detailed Sceatta List, a radical re-arrangement of the sceatta coinage extending the number of main varieties to 570 categorized in 114 groups, organized into 10 themes.