From the Stack Collection

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1427. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 725-745. AR Sceat (0.98 g). Series Q-related. Creature left, head right; pellets around / Cross fourchée, with bird right and seven pellets on alternate ends. Beowulf 79 (this coin); Abramson Qr10 var. (types reversed); Metcalf p. 494 var. (same); North -; SCBC -. Good VF, toned, partial flat strike. Extremely rare.

From the Beowulf Collection. Ex Lawrence R. Stack Collection (Sotheby’s, 22 April 1999), lot 206.