From the Ashton Rowant Hoard

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1366. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Continental Sceattas. Circa 700-715. AR Sceat (1.18 g, 8h). Series D, type 2c variety. Mint in Frisia (Domburg?). Crude bust left with pyramidal neck; chevrons and pellets around / Cross pommée, pellets in angles; blundered legend around. Beowulf 28 (this coin); Abramson D400; Metcalf 176 (same dies); North 169; SCBC 839 var. (bust right). EF, light iridescent toning. Very rare with bust left.

From the Beowulf Collection. Ex Sotheby’s (18 July 1985), lot 499; Ashton Rowant Hoard (CH I, 347).

In their recent publication, Sceattas and Merovingian Deniers from Domburg and Westenschouwen (Middelburg, 2004), Op den Velde and Klaassen noted that only around 5% of the type 2c coins have a left-facing bust (p. 39).