Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1375. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Continental Sceattas. Circa 700-765. AR Sceat (1.09 g). Series E, ‘Aston Rowant’ phase, var. G1 (Type 4). Mint in Frisia (Dorestad). ‘Porcupine’ right with triangular head; compartment with cross before / Standard with central pellet-in-annulet, bars and pellets around; symbols in margin. Beowulf 42 (this coin); Abramson E215 var. (no pellets on rev.); Metcalf p. 217; North 45; SCBC 787. EF, lightly toned.

From the Beowulf Collection.