Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1450. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Northumbria. Aethelred I. First reign, 774-779/80. AR Sceat (1.12 g, 2h). York mint. +EDILRED (partially retrograde), cross pattée / Heraldic quadruped standing right, raising foreleg; cross above, triquetra below. Beowulf 116 (this coin); Pirie, Guide 2.7a; North 180; SCBC 850. VF, toned, a little porous. Very rare.

From the Beowulf Collection. Ex Finn FPL (Winter 1994/95), no. 31.