LOT 3487
Anglo-Saxon. Eclectic Sceattas AR Sceatt. Circa 710-760.
Series 2c; BM type 14. 'Celtic Cross' Group. +LVNDONIA(retrograde), diademed bust to left / Voided Celtic cross with central and terminal pellets; rosette in quarters. SCBI, 69 -; M427 II (IV, bust to right); SCBC 822. Fine. Very rare. No other examples on CoinArchives.(0.86gr, 11mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceFound Tendring, Essex.
Property of an Essex gentleman.
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Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Mercia, Cynethryth (wife of Offa) AR Penny. 757-796.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,900
Canterbury mint; Eoba, moneyer. Light coinage, portrait type. Struck circa 784/5. ·: ·: Є:◊·BA, draped bust to right; to left, Latin cross / ✠ CfN·E∂Rf.ð REGIN around barred Mercian ᙏ in pelleted circle. SCBI 67 (BM), 654-8 (all monograms placed at 12h); North 339; SCBC 909. 1.08gr, 16mm, 6h.
Good Fine. Apparently unique variety with Mercian monogram placed at 9h.
Found Harston, Cambridgeshire, UK, in the 1990s. Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2024.0425. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Aethelred II AE Styca. First reign, 841-843/4.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
York mint; Fordred, moneyer. + EDILRED REX, central motif of pellet-in-annulet and four pellets / + FORDRED, central motif of five pellets. North 188; SCBC 865. 0.95gr, 13mm, 3h.
Fine.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020). -
Anglo-Saxon, Secondary Sceattas AR Sceatt. Circa 720-735/50.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £546
Hamwic mint. Series H, type 39. Bird pecking to right, wing raised; beaded foliage (vine-scroll) around / Voided Celtic cross with central rosette and rosette-in-annulet in each quarter. Cf. SCBI 69 (Abramson), 356; North 96; SCBC 801. 0.92gr, 12mm.
Good Very Fine.
Acquired from the vendor's grandfather in the 1990s. Property of an Essex collector.
