From the Subjack Collection

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1432. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 730-765. AR Sceat (0.88 g). Series L, type 12. London mint. Crude diademed and draped bust right; blundered, retrograde LVNDONIA above / Figure standing facing, head right, in crescent-shaped boat, holding two long cross pommées. Beowulf 62 (this coin); Abramson L050; Metcalf 320; North 63; SCBC 818. Good VF, dark find patina.

From the Beowulf Collection. Ex William L. Subjack Collection (Vecchi 14, 5 February 1999), lot 1694.

The reverse of Type 12 adopts the obverse motif of Series U (see lots 1395 and 1397, above).