LOT 3830
Anglo-Saxon, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder AR Penny. Late period, phase I, circa 915-920. London mint; Beahstan, moneyer. Small cross/two-line (HCT 1) type.
✠ EADVVEARD REX, small cross / BEAHS-TAN MO in two lines, ✠ above, three pellets below, ✠✠✠ between. CTCE 85; SCBI 26, 134; BMC 17; North 649; SCBC 1087. Very Fine. Edge chipped.(1.47gr, 20mm, 8h.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a Sussex, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 3830
Anglo-Saxon, Kings of Wessex. Edward the Elder AR Penny.
Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Anglo-Saxon. Primary Sceattas AR Sceat. Circa 670-675. Mint in Essex or East Anglia.
Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Diademed and draped bust to right in dotted circle / Dove standing to right on cross pattée; annulets flanking all within ouroboros; blundered legend around; three annulets(?) below. North 124/126 (obv./rev.); SCBC 776/777 (same). 1.13gr, 12mm, 3h.
Very Fine.
Found Suffolk, UK. Property of a Suffolk, UK, gentleman. -
Anglo-Saxon. Continental Sceattas AR Sceat. Circa 715/20-740. Mint in northern Frisia. Series E, unlisted variety.
Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
'Porcupine' to right with pellet eyes / Beaded standard with central pellet-in-annulet, a broken and an unbroken line; symbols in margins. SCBI 69 (Abramson) 213 var. (two broken lines); SCBC 790C. 1.19gr, 11mm, 11h.
Good Very Fine. Extremely rare; apparently unlisted variety with one unbroken line.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Anglo-saxon. Primary Sceattas AR Sceat. Circa 680-710. Series BIIIA, type 27a.
Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Triple diademed bust to right, within anticlockwise beaded ouroboros, triad of pellets before; pseudo-legend around / Bird standing to right on cross pattée; annulets flanking, triad of pellets to right; all within anticlockwise beaded ouroboros; pseudo-legend around. BMC Type 27; Abramson 71ff; North 126; SCBC 777. 1.13gr, 12mm, 11h.
Good Very Fine. Rare.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
