365, Lot: 505. Estimate $100. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Primary Sceattas. Circa 700-710. AR Sceat (11mm, 1.22 g, 1h). Series BII, type 27b. Mint in Essex or East Anglia. Diademed head right within serpent-circle; vestigial legend in margin / Dove standing right on cross pattée; pellet-in-annulets flanking cross, small cross to right; all within serpent-circle; vestigial legend in margin. Abramson 16/60; SCBI 63 (BM), 105–8; North 126; cf. SCBC 777A. Near VF, toned.

Ex Heritage 3000 (29 May 2008), lot 51598 (part of).