Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1383. 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 (1.11 g). Series E, ‘Franeker’ phase, var. E (Type 4). Mint in Frisia (Dorestad). ‘Porcupine’ left, X flanked by pellets within / Standard with central pellet-in-annulet, chevron and three bars around; symbols in margin. Beowulf 39 (this coin); cf. Abramson E210; cf. Metcalf p. 197; North 46; SCBC 787. EF, toned. Very rare with ‘porcupine’ left.

From the Beowulf Collection.