LOT 2204
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Primary Phase - Saroaldo AR Sceatta SCBI Plate Coin 680-710 A.D.
Obv: profile bust right with saltire cross before. Rev: standard with tufa left side and FIT / RV in two lines within with SAROALDO around. Very fine. Rare with FIT/RV within standard(1.00 grams.). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Abramson collection, acquired AMR Coins, 2011.
Found UK.
SCBI 69 Abramson) 138 (this coin).
LiteratureS.784; SCBI 69 (Abramson) 137-138.
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LOT 2204
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Primary Phase - Saroaldo AR Sceatta SCBI Plate Coin
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
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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 - Post Crondall - Two Emperors Gold Shilling (Thrymsa) 655-675 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,340
Obv: helmeted bust right with letters and symbols behind, within a beaded border. Rev: bust of winged angel facing with two pellets to the right and a single pellet to the left above two facing heads with annulet-in-crescents below in centre and additional annulet under the right bust. 1.19 grams.
Good very fine; good, pale gold. Rare.
Found Essex, UK. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11726-198577. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Primary Phase - Series C - Portrait AR Sceatta 680-710 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Obv: radiate bust right, runic FMCF. Rev: Variety C1, standard, TOTII; variety C2, four bars with pellet either side abutting around the central standard. 1.12 grams.
Extremely fine; 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.
