LOT 2228
Viking Coins - Danish East Anglia - St Edmund Memorial AR Penny 885-915 A.D.
Obv: top-barred A with +SCEA+DI legend. Rev: small cross with +BAHIMOI legend. Near as struck; bend to flan.(1.36 grams.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Colchester, UK, collector.
LiteratureS. 961.
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LOT 2228
Viking Coins - Danish East Anglia - St Edmund Memorial AR Penny
Sold for (Inc. bp): £715
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Anglo-Saxon Coins - Continental Issues - Series X - Wodan Bust AR Sceatta 695-740 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £494
Obv: facing 'Wodan' head with long hair and beard; pellet-ended cross each side, within a pelleted border. Rev: dragon beast left with head looking back over shoulder to right, swallowing tail and with prominent pellet-tipped phallus, within a pelleted border. 1.09 grams.
Extremely fine; near as struck.
Ex late John Cross collection, Canterbury, UK. Acquired Canterbury Auction Galleries, 3 October 2021, lot 569 (part). Property of two Kent sisters, by gift from their parents. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Post Crondall - Two Emperors Gold Shilling (Thrymsa) 655-675 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,340
Obv: helmeted bust right with letters and symbols behind, within a beaded border. Rev: bust of winged angel facing with two pellets to the right and a single pellet to the left above two facing heads with annulet-in-crescents below in centre and additional annulet under the right bust. 1.19 grams.
Good very fine; good, pale gold. Rare.
Found Essex, UK. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11726-198577. -
Anglo-Saxon Coins - Primary Phase - Series F - Pelletted Helmet AR Sceatta 680-710 A.D.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
Obv: profile bust with pelleted helmeted bust right with X behind and blundered legend with lozenge O. Rev: small cross on steps in centre with annulets and TTII around blundered arrangement of letters with lozenge O. 1.13 grams.
Extremely fine; as struck.
Ex late John Cross collection, Canterbury, UK. Acquired Canterbury Auction Galleries, 3 October 2021, lot 569 (part). Property of two Kent sisters, by gift from their parents.
