Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1409. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 710-765. AR Sceat (1.05 g). Series R, Type 78. Mint in East Anglia. Crude bust right with pyramidal neck; chevron and pellets behind, annulet and Runic GPA (or NPA?) before / Saltire standard, trefoils in angles of saltire; pellets, annulet, and chevron in margin. Beowulf 91 (this coin); Abramson P220 (same dies as illustration); cf. Metcalf p. 532; cf. North 159; cf. SCBC 832/833. Good VF, toned. Very rare.

From the Beowulf Collection.