LOT 3798
Anglo-Saxon. Continental Sceattas AR Sceat. Circa 695/700-715. Mint in Frisia (Domburg?). Series D, type 2c.
Radiate bust to right; traces of Runic AEPA before / Short cross pommée, with pellet in each quarter; various ornaments around. North 163; SCBC 792. Very fine.(1.08gr, 11mm, 3h.).
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market since the early 2000s.
Property of a Lincolnshire gentleman, thence by descent.
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Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Aethelred II AE Styca. 841-849/50. York mint; Monne, moneyer.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
+ EDELRED REX around central cross with pellets in angles / + MOͶNE around central pellet. Cf. SCBI 69 (Abramson), 986; North 188; SCBC 865 and 868. 1.08gr, 13mm, 6h.
Near Very Fine.
Found near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, since 2010. From the private collection of a Yorkshire, UK, gentleman. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of All England, Edward the Confessor AR Penny. Struck circa 1056-1059. York mint; Leofnoth, moneyer. Sovereign/Eagles type (BMC ixa, Hild. H var.).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
EDPΛRD RX ANGLOR, Edward seated facing on throne, holding sceptre and globus cruciger / ✠ LEFNEÐ ON EOFRP, voided cross; martlets and annulets in quarters. North 827 var. (annulets on rev.); SCBC 1181 var. (same). 1.33gr, 20mm, 3h.
Very Fine. Well-centred.
Ex Halls Auction, November 2008, lot 169. Ex Lockdales, 16 January 2011, lot 569. From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Mercia, Coenwulf I AR Penny. Struck 820. Rochester mint; Ealhstan, moneyer. Group III. Cross and wedge type.
Estimate: £2,500 - 3,500 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,250
✠ COENVVLF : REX m, diademed bust to right / + EALஃͶZTAH mOHT, cross pommée with wedges in each angle within inner circle. North 355/cn76; SCBC 917. 1.22gr, 20mm, 10h.
Very Fine. Beautiful iridescent toning.
Found in Breckland, Norfolk, UK, on Friday 22nd December 2023. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.NMS-F6E4AE. Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2023.0536.
