LOT 2218
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series V - Wolf and Twins AR Sceatta 710-760 A.D.
Obv: tall wolf standing right with head down and looking back to suckling twins seated below, within a beaded border. Rev: songbird facing away with head right and closed beak pecking berries set between two stems, within a beaded border. Good fine. Rare.(0.91 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. 817; Abr. 62; N. 120; M. 453; M. p. 570-5; cf. SCBI 69 (Abramson) 801-804 for type.
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LOT 2218
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series V - Wolf and Twins AR Sceatta
Estimate £500 - 700€580 - 810 (for guidance only)$680 - 950 (for guidance only)
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Anglo-Saxon Coins - Primary Phase - Series F - Portrait AR Sceatta 680-710 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Obv: profile bust with pelleted helmet right with XO behind and blundered legend with lozenge O. Rev: small cross in centre with annulets around blundered arrangement of letters with lozenge O, within a pelleted border. 1.25 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. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Post Crondall - Two Emperors Gold Shilling (Thrymsa) 655-675 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,640
Obv: helmeted bust right with letters and symbols behind, within a beaded border. Rev: bust of winged angel facing with two pellets to the right and a single pellet to the left above two facing heads with annulet-in-crescents below in centre and additional annulet under the right bust. 1.26 grams.
Near extremely fine; good butter-yellow gold. Very rare; most examples are in public collections.
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. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11725-197242. -
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.
