Second Known for Die Combination

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1483. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of East Anglia. Beonna. Circa 749-760. AR Sceat (0.82 g, 9h). ‘Northern’ mint (Thetford?); EFE, moneyer. +BEONNA REX (partially runic), cross pattée / Pellet within square, diagonal bars radiating from corners; • + • \ E \ • F \ • E \ in quadrants. Archibald Supp. C22 (O10/R35); cf. SCBI 2 (Hunterian), 412; BMC 1; North 430/1; SCBC 945. VF, find patina, a little porous. Very rare, and the second known from this die combination.

From the Beowulf Collection. Ex Finn FPL 9 (1997), no. 56.