Triton XVIII, Lot: 1767. Estimate $1500. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IRELAND, Hiberno-Norse. Circa 1110-1150. AR Penny (20mm, 0.83 g). Phase VII (semi-bracteate) coinage, ‘Scrabo’ with Quatrefoil type. Uncertain mint signature and moneyer. IIII+IIIIIIII[...], bust left / · IIII · · IIIIO OIIII · IIII ·, quatrefoil over long cross. O'S 65; SCBI 8 (BM) 251–2; D&F 33; SCBC 6191. Good VF. Very rare.

From the Joseph R Lasser Collection for the benefit of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, purchased from Davissons, 26 April 2010. Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CXIII.1 (February 2005), no. IH0162; Viking Collection [J. Chown] (Spink 150, 14 March 2001), lot 1150.