One of Three Known

CNG 97, Lot: 981. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of East Anglia. Beonna. Circa 749-760/5. AR Sceat (14.5mm, 1.02 g, 3h). Mint in northern East Anglia (Thetford?); Wærferth, moneyer. Struck circa 757-760/5. + BEOnna REzs (lowercase in Runic) around rosette / + WERFER (in Runic) in the angles of a pelleted cross with central lozenge containing rosette and pellets. Archibald dies 1/1; AFC C1 (this coin); SCBI 63 (BM), 847 (same dies); North 430; SCBC 945 var. (moneyer). Good VF, toned, small area of flat strike, some hard deposits on reverse. Extremely rare, one of three known with this moneyer (the other two, respectively, from the Middle Harling hoard [now in BM] and Ipswich excavations).

From the Collection of an Underwriter. Ex Axel John “Peter” Arnot Collection (Buckland, Dix and Wood, 21 March 1995), lot 44. Reportedly found near Thetford (per correspondence between Arnot and Archibald).