Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1380. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Continental Sceattas. Circa 700-765. AR Sceat (1.06 g). Series E, ‘Kloster Barthe’ phase, var. C (Type 4). Mint in Frisia (Dorestad). ‘Porcupine’ right, head as inverted A; annulet, cross, V, and T to right / Standard with central annulet, chevrons, bar, cross, and pellets around; symbols in margin. Beowulf 38 (this coin); Abramson 190 var. (obv. symbols); cf. Metcalf p. 197; D.M. Metcalf, “Twelve notes on sceatta finds,” BNJ XLVI (1976), pl. 1, 2 (same dies); North 45; SCBC 787. Superb EF, toned. Rare.

From the Beowulf Collection.