Possibly Unique Windmill Cross ‘Porcupine’

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1377. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $690. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Continental Sceattas. Circa 700-765. AR Sceat (0.82 g). Series E, ‘Aston Rowant’ phase, type 53 variety. Mint in Frisia (Dorestad). ‘Porcupine’ right with triangular head containing trefoil and ending in cross; annulets flanking head, pellet in lower field / Degraded stepped cross of windmill form with central pellet-in-annulet; trefoils in quarters. Beowulf 46 (this coin); Abramson -; cf. Metcalf 261; cf. North 150; cf. SCBC 844A. Good VF, toned. Extremely rare variant, possibly unique.

From the Beowulf Collection. Ex Baldwin’s 30 (7 May 2002), lot 558.