Exceptional Aethiliraed Type

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1360. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Primary Sceattas. Circa 700-710. AR Sceat (1.16 g, 12h). Aethiliraed Series (E), type 105. Mint in east Kent. ‘Porcupine’ right / Runic AETHILI/RAED in two lines. Beowulf 12 (this coin); Abramson E500; Metcalf 134; North 155; SCBC 780. Good VF, toned. Rare.

From the Beowulf Collection. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CII.3 (April, 1994), no. 2132.