Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1354. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $2700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Primary Sceattas. Circa 680-720. AR Sceat (1.18 g, 10h). Series Z, type 66. Mint in East Anglia or Mercia. Facing bust (of Christ?) with long beard; cross to right, blundered legend / Hound(?) standing right, sniffing ground; blundered legend. Beowulf 17 (this coin); Abramson Z220; Metcalf 140-1; cf. North 145; SCBC 782. Good VF, lightly toned. Extremely rare.

From the Beowulf Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XIX.2 (1994), no. 417.