Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1451. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $1980. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Northumbria. Aelfwald I. 779/80-788. AR Sceat (1.04 g, 10h). York mint. +FGEAAGDVS (partially retrograde and inverted), cross pattée / Heraldic quadruped standing right, raising foreleg. Beowulf 117 (this coin); Pirie, Guide 2.9a var. (legend); North 181 var. (cross on reverse); SCBC 851. VF, toned, a hint of surface roughness.

From the Beowulf Collection.