Ex De Wit, Jordan, and Arnot Collections

CNG 97, Lot: 982. Estimate $5000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of East Anglia. Beonna. Circa 749-760/5. AR Sceat (13mm, 0.99 g, 12h). Mint in northern East Anglia (Thetford?); Wilræd, moneyer. Struck circa 757-760/5. + BEN + NA X (in retrograde Runic) around rosette / + WIL + RED (in Runic) around small cross. Archibald dies 10/3; AFC C28 (this coin); SCBI 63 (BM), 840; North 430; SCBC 945 var. (moneyer). Good VF, toned. Rare.

From the Collection of an Underwriter. Ex G. W. de Wit Collection (Part III, Künker 137, 11 March 2008), lot 3046; John Jordan Collection (Triton II, 1 December 1998), lot 1256; Axel John “Peter” Arnot Collection (Buckland, Dix and Wood, 21 March 1995), lot 45.