LOT 3267
Anglo-Saxon. Primary Sceattas AR Sceatta. Secondary Phase, circa 710-760.
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. Extremely Fine. Very rare.(1.18gr, 12mm, 11h.).
ProvenanceFound 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.
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Anglo-Saxon. Continental Sceattas AR Sceatta. Circa 715/20-740.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
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. 1.09gr, 12mm.
Good Very Fine.
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s. -
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 all England, Aethelred II AR Cut Halfpenny. 978-1016.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Uncertain mint and moneyer. Last Small Cross type (BMC i, Hild. A). Struck 1009-1017. [...]ÆD REX ANG[...], diademed and draped bust to left / [...]ÐESTAN O[...], small cross pattée. North 777; SCBC 1154. 0.86gr, 20mm.
Near Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
