LOT 2499
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Primary Phase - Series F - AR Pelleted Helmet Sceatta 680-710 A.D.
Obv: profile bust with pelleted helmeted bust right with blundered legend with lozenge O's. Rev: small cross-on-steps in centre with annulets and TTII around blundered arrangement of letters with lozenge O. Good very fine.(1.08 grams, 11.67 mm.). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Cambridgeshire, UK.
LiteratureAbr. 106; see N. 61-62 variant (steps); see Metcalf 136-137 variant (ditto); M. p. 125-32; S. 781.
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LOT 2499
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Primary Phase - Series F - AR Pelleted Helmet Sceatta
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
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Anglo-Saxon Coins - Alfred the Great - Canterbury/Hebeca - Base AR Lunettes Penny 871-899 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,340
Obv: profile bust right with +AELBRED REX legend. Rev: lunettes broken at edges with HEBECA for moneyer Hebeca between MON and ETA. 1.08 grams, 20.09 mm.
Very fine, edge chip. Very rare.
Found near Linton, Cambridgeshire, UK, on 13 January 2024.
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.' -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Post-Crondall - PADA - Pale Gold Thrymsa c. 655-675 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £910
Pada Type III. Obv: diademed bust right, legend around. Rev: cross with annulets in angles within beaded inner circle, ΛNVSPNΛI legend including runic PADA within outer beaded circle. 1.22 grams, 12 mm.
About very fine.
Rennes collection, France. Property of a French gentleman, acquired 2010. -
Secondary Phase - Series H, Type 49, Variety IB - Hamwic Type AR Sceatta c.710-c.760 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £429
Obv: facing Woden head with nine bosses around. Rev: pecking bird with pellets. 0.86 grams, 12 mm.
Very fine.
Found Dorset, UK, 2012.
