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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Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Mercia, Offa AR Penny. 757-796. Canterbury mint; Osmod, moneyer. Heavy coinage.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,950
⁜ ꕺFFΛ RE※ within two lines; uncial m above, various pellets in fields / ⵙS:MOD between two lines, inverted uncial m with triangular symbol either side below, cross and bars pattern above, various pellets in fields. Chick type 239; North 320; SCBC 908. 1.24gr, 19mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Toned.
From a private East Anglian collection formed since the 1980s. -
Anglo-Saxon, Kings of All England. Aethelred II AR Penny. Struck circa 991-997. York mint, Arncytel moneyer. Crux type (BMC iiia, Hild. C).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
✠ EÐELRED REX ANGLOX (NG ligate), bare-headed bust to left; sceptre before / ✠ ARNCYTEL M-O EOFL, voided cross with C-R-V-X in angles. North 770; SCBC 1148. 1.41gr, 21mm, 9h.
Very Fine. Flan crack.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Osberht AE Styca. Circa 849/50-867. Wineberht moneyer.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
+ OSBERCHT(retrograde) around central motif /+ VINIBERH•(retrograde) around central small cross with pellet in angles. North 191; SCBC 869. 1.09gr, 13mm, 7h.
Very Fine.
Found near Driffield, Yorkshire, UK.
