CNG 91, Lot: 1449. Estimate $300. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Continental Sceattas. Circa 695/700-710/5. AR Sceat (13mm, 1.16 g). Series E, ‘Ashton Rowant’ phase, stepped cross var. (type 53). Mint in Frisia (Dorestad). Degenerate ‘porcupine’ head right, with annulet, bar, and pellets below / ‘Stepped’ cross, with pellet-in-annulet at center and pellets around. Abramson E400; Metcalf p. 243-5; North -– SCBC 785 (844A). EF, toned.

Ex Triton IV (5 December 2000), lot 939.