Triton XVIII, Lot: 1693. Estimate $300. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Primary Sceattas. Circa 685-700. AR Sceat (12mm, 1.24 g, 6h). Series BIII imitation. Copying a mint at Essex or East Anglia. Crude head right; two annulets before / Cross pattée with bird at top; pellets in quarters; blundered legend in margin. Abramson 16.90 (same dies as illustration); Coin Register 2002, 70 = EMC 2001.0979; Beowulf 25 (this coin); Metcalf –; SCBI 63 (BM), –; North –; SCBC –. Good VF, find patina. Rare.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Ex Elsen FPL 249 (July-September 2009), no. 326; Beowulf Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 75, 23 May 2007), lot 1325.