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LOT 2502
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Primary Phase - Series BIIIA - AR Bird on Cross Sceatta 680-710 A.D.
Obv: profile bust right with double ring of pellets (in place of blundered legend). Rev: flying bird with cross in front, over cross with annulet each side and pellet in lower angles, with blundered legend. Very fine, obverse clearly off struck showing the details of the legend beautifully.(1.09 grams, 11.94 mm.). [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Cambridgeshire, UK.
Literature
Abr. 16.70-80; N. 126 variant; see M. pp.158-65; S. 777A.
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LOT 2502
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Primary Phase - Series BIIIA - AR Bird on Cross Sceatta
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
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Adrian W. Lyons and William A. Mackay The Lunettes Coinage of Alfred The Great, One of the authors of the above article, William MacKay, has commented as follows: 'This accords with BNJ Lyon and MacKay 2008, Alfred lunettes Mercian style obverse, var. V – see page 49. The bust aligns with the group V obverses of Burgred, in this case specifically type V5 – MacKay 2015, p. 127 and plate nos 152-182. The moneyer named on the coin is Hebeca. He appears as one the two moneyers striking lunettes pennies for Archbishop Ceolnoth so was likely Canterbury based. The Mercian style obverse die would likely have been cut at one of the Mercian mint workshops at London. The reverse type D – crooks - as here is scarce for Alfred.'
