407, Lot: 725. Estimate $200. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Continental Sceattas. Circa 710/5-730/50. AR Sceatt (12mm, 0.62 g, 4h). Series E, Secondary ('Kloster Barthe') phase, porcupine var. A (Type 4). Mint in Frisia (Dorestad?). ‘Porcupine’ right, cross pommée within curve of body; trace of VVI legend below / Standard with T T / O / I I in three lines; at sides, alternating cross pommée and T . Abramson 94.30 var. (’porcupine’ left); cf. SCBI 63 (BM), 386-7 (for type); North 45; SCBC 790. EF, toned.