LOT 3268
Anglo-Saxon. Continental Sceattas AR Sceatta. Circa 715/20-740.
Series E, variety E. 'Porcupine' with snout and no legs to right, enclosing numerous pellets / Beaded 'standard' with lines and pellets around pellet-in-annulet. Cf. Abramson 99-15; SCBC 790D. Good Very Fine.(1.09gr, 12mm.).
ProvenanceFound Yorkshire, UK.
From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.
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Anglo-Saxon. Primary Sceattas AR Sceatta. Secondary Phase, circa 710-760.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Uncertain mint. Series J, Type 85. Rigold BIIIb. Crude diademed head to right; large cross before / Bird standing to right on cross, pellet before; annulets and pellets flanking. Abramson 16-100; SCBI 67 (Abramson), -; cf. SCBC 802. 1.18gr, 12mm, 11h.
Extremely Fine. Very rare.
Found near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, in the 1990s. Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2025.0146. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Aethelred II AE Styca. 841-849/50.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
York mint; Wulfred, moneyer. + EDILRED REX around central cross / + VVEFͶED around central cross. Pirie 979-990 var. (legends); North 188; SCBC 868. 0.68gr, 11mm, 1h.
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 Northumbria, Eadberht AR Sceatta. 737-758.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
EDTBEREҺTVF around small cross pattée / Stylised quadruped with long tail and raised foreleg to left. North 178; SCBC 847. NGC graded AU DETAILS ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE (#6945305-030).
From the private collection of an Essex, UK, lady.
