LOT 3269
Anglo-Saxon. Secondary Sceattas AR Sceatta. Circa 730-750.
Mint in East Anglia. Series R. Crude bust to right with C-shaped ear; to left, Λ flanked by annulets; annulet and legend in runic to right / 'Standard' with central annulet, chevrons in upper corners, diagonal lines in lower; crosses on each side, radiating line on each corner. Abrsamson 11–120 var. (legend); cf. Metcalf 403-6 (for similar legend); North -; SCBC 813A. Near Very Fine. Apparently unrecorded legend.(0.83gr, 12mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceFound Nottinghamshire, UK.
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Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria, Irregular issues AE Styca. Circa 843/4-855.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
In the name of Eanred. Uncertain moneyer. + EANR REX around central pelleted cross / Blundered legend around uncertain central motif. North p. 72; SCBC 872. 0.68gr, 13mm, 3h.
Fine.
Found near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, since 2010. From the private collection of a Yorkshire, UK, gentleman. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of All England, Edward the Confessor AR Penny. 1042-1066.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £247
York mint; Arngrimr, moneyer. Small Flan type (BMC ii, Hild. B). Struck circa 1048-1050. ✠ EDPE-RD RE, diademed and draped bust to left / ✠ ARNGRI ON EOFR (NG and N E ligate), voided short cross; annulet in second quarter. SCBI 1 (Fitzwilliam), 855 var. (ON EO); North 818; SCBC 1175. 0.90gr, 14mm, 4h.
Fine.
Found by Robin Sykes in Sutton-on-the-Forest, North Yorkshire, UK, in March 2000. Recorded with Craig Barclay at the Yorkshire Museum. Accompanied by a Metal Detecting Finds, Coin Record Sheet -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Mercia, Coenwulf AR Penny. 796-821.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,600
London mint. Wigheard, moneyer. Tribrach type. Struck 798-805. + Cꕺ•ENVV•LF R•EX, Mercian M with horizontal line above; all within pelleted circle / VVI-GHA-RD within angles of tribrach moline. Naismith L15c&e; North 342; SCBC 914. 1.40gr, 20mm, 2h.
Extremely Fine. Well-centred with an amazing iridescent toning. Apparently the only issue of Wigheard of London for Coenwulf.
Found near Stockbridge, Hampshire, UK, on 22 December 2024. Recorded by the Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridgeshire, with reference no. EMC 2025.0043.
