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. 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. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Wessex, Aethelstan AR Penny. 924-939.
Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,000
York mint. Ragnald / Reinald, moneyer. Circumscription Cross type (BMC v). ✠ EÐELSTΛͶ REx TO BRIΓ, small cross pattée; crescent and seven pellets in field / ✠ REGN•Λ•⊥•D•M• -o EFoRPIC, small cross pattée. North 672; SCBC 1093. 1.29gr, 20mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine. Flan crack at 7h.
Found near Cotham, Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK. Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2025.0078.
The title on the obverse REX TO BRIT is an abbreviation of REX TOTIUS BRITANNIAEl, which means 'King of All Britain'. Aethelstan assumed this title after the incorporation of the Kingdom of York into his southern English kingdom and the submission of all the rulers in Britain to his overlordship. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Eadberht AR Styca. 737-758.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
York mint. ΓVTEREBT◊E (retrograde) around central small cross / Heraldic quadruped standing to right, raising foreleg; small cross beneath tail, [triquetra?] below. North 177; SCBC 847; cf. EMC 2010.0031. 0.87gr, 13mm, 6h.
Fine. Rare with king's name retrograde.
Found Yorkshire, UK. From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.
