Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 2042. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $410. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Continental Sceattas. Circa 700-765. AR Sceat (1.29 g, 9h). Series E, ‘Ashton Rowant’ phase, porcupine VICO variety 1. Mint in Frisia (Dorestad). ‘Porcupine’ right, NII within curve of body; pellets and triangle below / Standard with central annulet, chevrons, 3-pellet-bar, and pellets around (degenerate VICO); symbols in margins. Abramson E801; Metcalf 198; North 45; SCBC 788. EF, toned.

Ex Michael J. Grover Collection; Glendining, 4 April 1979, lot 183; Ashton Rowant Hoard (CH I, 347).