LOT 2548
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Continental Issues - Series E Later Issues - Plumed Bird AR Sceatta 695-740 A.D.
Obv: plumed bird right with triple tail and pellets around. Rev: standard with pellets-in-annulets and pellets within and crosses around. Extremely fine.(1.14 grams.). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Berkshire, UK.
LiteratureS.791; cf. SCBI 69 (Abramson) 192-195.
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LOT 2548
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Continental Issues - Series E Later Issues - Plumed Bird AR Sceatta
Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
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Anglo-Saxon Coins - Offa - East Anglia / Wihtred - Light Coinage AR Penny 760-792 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,080
Light coinage. Obv: hollow cross with incurved sides and lozenge ends with quadruple pellets within and O FF AR EX in angles for OFFA REX. Rev: hollow lozenge with fleurs at cusps and cross within with +P IH TR E in angles for the moneyer PIHTRE or Wihtred at an uncertain East Anglia mint. 1.20 grams.
Near extremely fine. A new type for the moneyer and thus unique.
Found near Lower Hatcheston, Suffolk, UK, April 2020. Accompanied by copies of the British Museum Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), reference SE-87E18C and Early Medieval Corpus, reference 2020.0196 records.
The EMC record includes the comment 'A new type for the East Anglian moneyer Wihtred, cf. Chick 183'; although this coin shares some features and details with other coins of this moneyer and of others, these dies are distinctly different from any others previously recorded. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series K Type 33 - Wolf Head AR Sceatta 710-760 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Obv: profile bust with cross before. Rev: wolf head with long tongue. 0.97 grams.
Very fine. Scarce.
Found Kelveden, Essex, UK. Accompanied by a copy of British Museum Portable Antiquities Scheme record, SF-2359E7. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Continental Issues - Series E - Porcupine AR Sceatta 695-740 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Obv: degenerate 'porcupine' head. Rev: standard with annulet and symbols inside and letters around. 1.10 grams.
Good very fine.
Found Berkshire, UK.
