Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1406. 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 (0.95 g). Series R (R6). Uncertain mint. Crude bust left with pyramidal neck; chevron behind, Runic ES (retrograde) before / Annulet in square within two concentric circles, the outer with four annulets. Beowulf 88 (this coin); Abramson R170a; Metcalf p. 513; North -; cf. SCBC 832 (for prototype). Good VF, toned. Extremely rare.

From the Beowulf Collection. Ex Lawrence R. Stack Collection (Sotheby’s, 22 April 1999), lot 209.