LOT 3729
Anglo-Saxon. Primary Sceattas AR Sceatta. Circa 685-700. Mint in Essex or East Anglia. Series BIb, type 27b.
Crude diademed bust to right, breaking inner beaded circle; pseudo-legend around / Bird standing to right on cross pattée; annulets and pellets flanking; all within clockwise beaded ouroboros; pseudo-legend around, three annulets below. EMC 2008.0149; Abramson 16.10 var. (four annulets around cross); SCBC 777. Very Fine.(1.16gr, 12mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceFound Gloucestershire, UK.
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Group of Five [5] Anglo-Saxon AE Coins. 9th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Various kings. 4.76gr total.
Condition as seen.
Found near Driffield, Yorkshire, UK. -
England. Norman, William I 'the Conqueror' AR Penny. Struck circa 1068-1070. Uncertain mint; uncertain moneyer. Bonnet type (BMC ii).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
[✠ PILLEMV]S [REX], crowned facing bust / ✠ GOL[...] ON COLEC(?), voided cross, with annulet at centre, pile in each quarter, and pellet-between-crescents at each end. North 842; SCBC 1251. 0.99gr, 20mm, 12h.
Near Fine. Broken and repaired.
Found Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, UK, 2025. From the private collection of a late Gloucestershire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent. Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2025.0267. -
Anglo-Saxon. Secondary Sceattas AR Sceatta. Circa 730-740/5. Mint in Essex or Kent. Series L, type 18.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Diademed and draped bust to right; long cross pommée to right / Figure standing facing in crescent boat, holding cross pommée and hawk; perch to lower right. North 72; SCBC 804F. 0.94gr, 12mm, 3h.
Near Fine.
Found Gloucestershire, UK.
