271, Lot: 186. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 730-740. AR Sceat (12mm, 1.02 g). Series S, type 47. Mint in Essex. Centauress standing left, head right, holding palm frond in each hand / Four heads of wolves in clockwise circle, each with tongue forming whorl. Abramson S100; Metcalf p. 540; North 121; SCBC 831. Superb EF.
Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 1241.