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. 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 Northumbria, Aethelred II AE Styca. 841-849/50.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Monne, moneyer. + EDILRED around central pelleted cross / + MO[NN]E, central pellet within dotted circle. North 188; SCBC 865 & 868. 1.11gr, 12mm, 2h.
Near Very Fine.
Found near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, since 2010. From the private collection of a Yorkshire, UK, gentleman. -
Anglo-Saxon. Kings of Northumbria Aethelred II AE Styca. First reign, 841-843/4.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
York mint; Eanred, moneyer. + EDILRED REX around central cross pattée / (Cross patonce) AͶRED around central cross pattée with pellets in angles. Pirie 1383; North 188; SCBC 865. 0.83gr, 11mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
Found near Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, since 2010. From the private collection of a Yorkshire, UK, gentleman.
