CNG 102, Lot: 1414. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 710-760. AR Sceat (12mm, 1.15 g). Type 30b/8 mule. Mint in the East Midlands. ‘Wodan’ head facing; cross saltires flanking beard / Beaded ‘standard’ with four lines around central pellet-in annulet; trefoils of pellets at edges. Abramson 105.120; OdV&K –; SCBI 63 (BM), –; SCBC 835; EMC 2015.2077 (this coin). Good VF, toned. Very rare.

Though described as a mule of types 30b and 8, this is likely a slight miscategorization. Type 30b is attributed to a mint in the East Midlands, while type 8 is given to a mint in Frisia, perhaps Domburg. The reverse engraving features a somewhat ‘scratchy’ style, with only a single pellet end for the degraded TOTII on the reverse. In contrast, the Frisian types all appear to have ‘thicker’ style, with two pellet ends on each reverse element. Furthermore, while no matches were found at Domburg, nine examples are in the Early Medieval Corpus of Coin Finds that were recorded from finds in England, including the present example.