LOT 2553
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series K Type 33 - Wolf Head AR Sceatta 710-760 A.D.
Obv: profile bust with cross before. Rev: wolf head with long tongue. Very fine. Scarce.(0.97 grams.). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Kelveden, Essex, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of British Museum Portable Antiquities Scheme record, SF-2359E7.
See British Museum Portable Antiquities Scheme, reference SF-2359E7 (this coin); see Early Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, reference EMC 2023.0221 (ditto).
LiteratureS. 803; M. 306.
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LOT 2553
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series K Type 33 - Wolf Head AR Sceatta
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
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Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series G Type 3a - Portrait AR Sceatta 710-760 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £546
Obv: diademed bust right holding in front a short cross, within a pelleted border. Rev: standard with three saltires and trefoil of pellets in fourth quarter, pellet in annulet in centre, within a beaded square. 0.98 grams.
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. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Continental Issues - Series E Variety E - Porcupine AR Sceatta 695-740 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Obv: degraded 'porcupine' head. Rev: standard with four lines and trefoils around central pellet-in-annulet. 1.06 grams.
Near extremely fine.
Found Berkshire, UK. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Archbishops of Canterbury - Ceolnoth / Hebeca - Inscribed Open Cross AR Penny 854-864 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,755
BMC type 30. Obv: facing tonsured bust extending to edge of flan with +CEOLNOÐ ARCHIEP legend. Rev: open long cross with +HEBE / CA MO across and upwards and N E T A in angles (thus reading HEBECA MONETA) for the moneyer Hebeca at Canterbury mint. 1.08 grams.
Near as struck; split to flan. Rare.
Found Nottinghamshire, UK.
