CNG 99, Lot: 1207. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 720-745. AR Sceat (22mm, 1.03 g, 2h). Series H, type 49. Hamwic (Southampton) mint. ‘Wodan’ head within pelleted border; nine pelletes-in-annulets around, trefoil of pellets below / Bird standing right; pellet-in-pelleted-annulet before, three pellets around. Abramson 4.48.910; Hamwic 60/40-3 (for obv./rev.); SCBI 63 (BM), 460-1 var. (obverse ornaments); North 108; SCBC 801A. EF, lightly toned. Good metal. Rare in high grade.