Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 1123. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Northumbria. Eadberht. 737-758. AR Sceat (1.18 g, 4h). Group D (Pirie regal group Bii). York mint. EOTBEREhTVΓ•, cross pattée / Heraldic quadruped standing left, raising foreleg; triquetra below, cross pattée above. Booth, Sceattas, class D, i (unlisted dies); Pirie, Guide 2.1k; North 178; SCBC 847. Superb EF, toned.