LOT 3824
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Mercia, Offa AR Penny. 760-792. East Anglia mint. Wihtred, moneyer. Light Coinage.
Hollow cross with incurved sides and lozenge ends with quadruple pellets within and O FF AR EX in angles / Hollow lozenge with fleurs at cusps and cross within with +P IH TR E in angles. SCBC 907; North 336; British Museum Portable Antiquities Scheme, reference SF-87E18C (this coin); Early Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, reference EMC 2020.0196. Near Extremely Fine. A new type for the moneyer and thus unique.(1.18gr, 18mm, 3h.).
ProvenanceFound near Lower Hatcheston, Suffolk, UK, April 2020.
Accompanied by copies of the British Museum Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), reference SE-87E18C and Early Medieval Corpus, reference 2020.0196 records.
The EMC record includes the comment 'A new type for the East Anglian moneyer Wihtred, cf. Chick 183'; although this coin shares some features and details with other coins of this moneyer and of others, these dies are distinctly different from any others previously recorded.
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LOT 3824
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Mercia, Offa AR Penny.
Estimate £1,500 - 2,000€1,740 - 2,320 (for guidance only)$2,030 - 2,700 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£600 (EUR 696; USD 810) +BP*
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Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Eanred AE Styca. Circa 810-840. York mint; Odilo, moneyer.
Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
✠ EANRED REX around central small cross pattée / ✠ ODILO around central small cross pattée. North 186; SCBC 862. 1.05gr, 12mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Anglo-Saxon. Continental Sceattas AR Sceat. Circa 695-715/20. Mint in Frisia (Dorestad?). Series E, Secondary ('Kloster Barthe') phase, porcupine var. A (Type 4).
Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
'Porcupine' to right / Standard with central annulet and chevrons and diagonal lines in opposite angles; symbols in margins. M&OdV pl. 23, 615-8; cf. Abramson 97.20 (for type); SCBC 790D. 0.81gr, 11mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Anglo-Saxon. Continental Sceattas AR Sceat. Circa 695/700-710/5. Mint in Frisia (Dorestad?). Series E, Primary ('Ashton Rowant') phase, porcupine var. D (Type 4).
Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
'Porcupine' to right; cross below, annulet at end of tail / 'Standard' with central annulet; pseudo-legend around. Abramson 90.10; SCBC 790B. 1.07gr, 12mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
