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Superb Plumed Bird

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1370. Estimate $750. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007. 
Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Continental Sceattas. Circa 700-765. AR Sceat (1.26 g). Series E, ‘Aston Rowant’ phase, plumed bird var. J (Type 6). Mint in Frisia (Dorestad). “Plumed bird” right; cross before / Standard with central pellet-in-annulet, bars, and trefoils; symbols in margin. Beowulf 32 (this coin); Abramson E300; Metcalf p. 197 and 193; North 49; SCBC 789. EF, lightly toned. Superb metal quality.



From the Beowulf Collection.