Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1421. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 720-745. AR Sceat (1.04 g). Series H, type 39. Hamwic mint. Bird pecking right; beaded foliage (vine-scroll) around / Voided Celtic cross with central rosette; rosettes in quarters. Beowulf 52 (this coin); Abramson Cc1; Metcalf 283; North 96; SCBC 805. Good VF, toned.

From the Beowulf Collection.

The obverse imagery, with a bird standing in a vine-scroll, was a very common motif in Anglo-Saxon England representing salvation and paradise (Gannon, p. 117).