LOT 2552
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Primary Phase - Stepped Cross Type 53 - Porcupine AR Sceatta 680-710 A.D.
Obv: degraded 'porcupine' profile bust right. Rev: stepped cross with pellet in angles and pellet-in-annulet at centre. Extremely fine; as struck.(1.16 grams.).
ProvenanceEx 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.
S. 785; Abr. 91; N. 150; M. 243-245, pl.15, 258; SCBI 63 (BM Anglo-Saxon I) -; SCBI 69 (Abramson), 290-291; BMC 199, for type; see Blackburn and Bonser, Single Finds of Anglo-Saxon and Norman Coins 2, BNJ 55, pp.70-71, no.62.
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LOT 2552
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Primary Phase - Stepped Cross Type 53 - Porcupine AR Sceatta
Estimate £250 - 350€290 - 410 (for guidance only)$340 - 470 (for guidance only)
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Anglo-Saxon Coins - Edward the Confessor - Thetford / Atsere - Facing Bust AR Penny 1024-1030 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
BMC type xiii. Obv: facing bust with EDPARD REHX A legend. Rev: small cross with +ATSERONÐETFOR legend for the moneyer Atsere at Thetford mint. 1.04 grams.
Very fine.
Ex Clarendon collection, part 1, Glendinings, March 2006. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. Accompanied by a coin ticket. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Aethelred II - Crux Penny Fragment Group 978-1016
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Group comprising: three large fragments of CRVX type pennies. 2.10 grams total.
Very fine; each with about half lost.
with Alfa Numismatics, Auction 11, lot 44. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series J Type 37 - Double Portrait AR Sceatta 710-760 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Obv: two diademed heads face-to-face, long cross in centre with tripod base, within pelleted border. Rev: four birds clockwise around small cross, within a border of two pelleted circles. 1.13 grams.
Near extremely fine.
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.
