Triton XXI, Lot: 1369. Estimate $750. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 725-745. AR Sceatt (12.5mm, 1.05 g, 4h). Series QII variety. Uncertain mint in East Anglia (Ely?). Quadruped stepping left, tail in form of cross; pellets around / Stag stepping left; pellets around. Abramson 64.80 = de Wit E 305 = Finn 11, no. 42 (same obv. die); Metcalf –; SCBI –; North –; SCBC –. Good VF, toned. Extremely rare, de Wit notes presumably only two known.

From the Dr. JDR Collection, purchased from Patrick Finn, May 1997.