LOT 2215
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series L, Type 18 - Man and Hawk AR Sceatta 710-760 A.D.
Obv: profile bust right with cross before. Rev: standing figure in crescent boat holding cross and hawk. Near very fine.(0.76 grams.). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, UK, recorded with Early Medieval Corpus, reference EMC 2018.0021.
PublishedSee Early Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, reference EMC 2018.0021 (this coin).
LiteratureS.804F. M. 331-333.
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LOT 2215
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series L, Type 18 - Man and Hawk AR Sceatta
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
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Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series G Type 3a - Portrait AR Sceatta 710-760 A.D.
Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £125
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. -
Hiberno-Norse Coins - Ireland - Sihtric Anlafsson - Long Cross and Hand Coinage - Portrait Penny 1035-1060 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £936
Phase III, imitating long cross issue of Aethelred II. Obv: profile bust left with +IINITRCMERIIO blundered legend, within a beaded border. Rev: long voided cross with 'hand' in two angles with I+I - IICI - IOI - CID blundered legend, within a beaded border. 0.93 grams.
Extremely fine.
Ex late John Cross collection, Canterbury, UK. Acquired Canterbury Auction Galleries, 3 October 2021, lot 569. Property of two Kent sisters, by gift from their parents. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series J, Type 85 - Bird on Cross AR Sceatta 710-760 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Obv: profile bust right. Rev: outline bird on cross with annulet each side. 0.91 grams.
Very fine; reverse better.
Found near York, UK.
