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Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1423. Estimate $500. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007. 
Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 725-745. AR Sceat (0.82 g, 12h). Series QIE, type 67b. Mint in the east Midlands. Diademed and draped bust right; cross before, pellets around / Bird standing left; pellets around. Beowulf 75 (this coin); Abramson Q070 variety 1; Metcalf p. 491; North 133 var. (cross on rev.); SCBC 836B. VF, dark toning. Extremely rare.



From the Beowulf Collection. Ex Captain "Peter" Arnot Collection (Buckland, Dix, and Wood, 21 March 1995), lot 15; Spink 20 (31 March 1982), lot 50; Brian Bird Collection (Glendining, 20 November 1974), lot 24; Seaby Coin and Medal Bulletin 581 (January 1967), no. H3805.