Details
LOT 2211
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series J Type 37 - Double Portrait AR Sceatta 710-760 A.D.
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. Near extremely fine.(1.13 grams.).
Provenance
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.
Literature
S. 802A; Abr. 19.30; M. 296-300; M. p. 351-3.
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LOT 2211
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series J Type 37 - Double Portrait AR Sceatta
Estimate £300 - 400€350 - 460 (for guidance only)$410 - 540 (for guidance only)
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Found Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, UK, recorded with Early Medieval Corpus, reference EMC 2018.0021.
