379, Lot: 604. Estimate $150. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ANGLO-SAXON, Continental Sceattas. Circa 710/5-730/50. AR Sceatt (12mm, 1.09 g). Series E, Primary ('Ashton Rowant') phase, porcupine ‘imitations’ (sub-variety k). Uncertain mint. ‘Porcupine’ right, with annulet ‘head’; III within curve of body, line and uncertain pattern below / Beaded ‘standard,’ with central annulet and four lines around in ‘swastika’-like pattern. OdV&K 648 (obv.) and 633–40 (rev.); Abramson 97.20; SCBI 63 (BM), –; North 48; SCBC 790D. Good VF, find patina.
Ex Classical Numismatic Review 19/4 (Fourth Quarter, 1994), no. 519.