Two Merovingian-Influenced Designs

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1386. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Continental Sceattas. Circa 700-765. AR Sceat (0.78 g). Uncertain series. Uncertain mint. Uncertain hatch-pattern design / Cross pattée; blundered legend around. Beowulf 47 (this coin); cf. Depeyrot, Denier, p. 155, 15 (for possible prototype); otherwise unpublished. Good VF, lightly toned.

From the Beowulf Collection.

This coin appears to be a derivative of an issue of Merovingian deniers originating from the vicinity of Marseille.