Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 1371. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Continental Sceattas. Circa 700-765. AR Sceat (1.15 g). Series E, ‘Aston Rowant’ phase, var. G1 (Type 4). Mint in Frisia (Dorestad). ‘Porcupine’ right with triangular head; compartment with two pellets before / Standard with central pellet-in-annulet, bars around; symbols in margin. Abramson E215; Metcalf p. 217 and no. 201; North 45; SCBC 787. Good VF, toned.

From the Dr. William F. Blank Collection. Ex Davisson’s FPL 1994-2, no. 173.