Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1404. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 710-765. AR Sceat (1.30 g, 10h). Imitation of series R (or late C). Uncertain mint. Crude radiate bust right with pyramidal neck; chevron barred A behind, Runic TPPA before / Votive standard, pellet-in-crescent in center and Ts in corners; crosses on outer sides and corners. Beowulf 86 (this coin); Abramson -; Metcalf -; North -; cf. SCBC 832 (for prototype). EF, even gray toning. Apparently unpublished.

From the Beowulf Collection.

The radiate crowns of Series A, C, and R, clearly derive from Roman issues of the third-early fifth centuries. Unlike the prototype, here the radiate elements have been blended with the hair of the bust, forming a pattern of triangles interspersed with dots (Gannon, p. 43).