Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1425. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 725-745. AR Sceat (0.76 g, 11h). Series QIx, type 56. Mint in the east Midlands. Creature standing right, head left; pellets around / Standard with central pellet, right angles, diagonal bars, and pellets; tufa above, crosses at sides and below. Beowulf 77 (this coin); Abramson O600 var. (same obv. die; different marks in standard); Metcalf -; North -; SCBC -. Good VF, toned. Extremely rare.

From the Beowulf Collection.

Same obv. die as Abramson O600, a mule with type E or C rev. (TOTII standard).