LOT 2206
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Continental Issues - Series D, Type 2c - AR Sceatta 695-740 A.D.
Obv: profile bust right with Runic AEPA before. Rev: small cross and pellets with pseudo legend. Very fine.(1.06 grams.). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound near York, UK, recorded with Early Medieval Corpus, reference EMC 2022.0041.
PublishedSee Early Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, reference EMC 2022.0041 (this coin).
LiteratureS.792; M 158-180.
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LOT 2206
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Continental Issues - Series D, Type 2c - AR Sceatta
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
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Anglo-Saxon Coins - Continental Issues - Series X - Wodan Bust AR Sceatta 695-740 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £494
Obv: facing 'Wodan' head with long hair and beard; pellet-ended cross each side, within a pelleted border. Rev: dragon beast left with head looking back over shoulder to right, swallowing tail and with prominent pellet-tipped phallus, within a pelleted border. 1.09 grams.
Extremely fine; near as struck.
Ex late John Cross collection, Canterbury, UK. Acquired Canterbury Auction Galleries, 3 October 2021, lot 569 (part). Property of two Kent sisters, by gift from their parents. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Celtic Cross Group - Portrait AR Sceatta 710-760 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Obv: pelletted bust facing right with O behind and pseudo legend in front. Rev: Celtic cross, a superimposed pellet cross, large annulets in angles (not rosettes), within a triple pelleted border. 1.22 grams.
Near extremely fine. Rare.
Ex late John Cross collection, Canterbury, UK. Acquired Canterbury Auction Galleries, 3 October 2021, lot 569 (part). Property of two Kent sisters, by gift from their parents. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series H Type 49 - Wodan Head AR Sceatta 710-760 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Obv: facing Woden head with 11 bosses around. Rev: pecking bird with pellets, within a pelleted border. 1.11 grams.
Good very fine; near as struck.
Ex late John Cross collection, Canterbury, UK. Acquired Canterbury Auction Galleries, 3 October 2021, lot 569 (part). Property of two Kent sisters, by gift from their parents.
