Triton XXI, Lot: 1377. Estimate $300. Sold for $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Northumbria. Eadberht. 737-758. AR Sceatt (12mm, 0.81 g, 2h). Class A. York mint. EADBERhTVΓ•, cross pattée / Quadruped standing right, raising foreleg. Booth, Sceattas, Class A, 1 (dies A/a) = J. Booth & I. Blowers, “Finds of Sceattas and Stycas from Sancton” in NC 143 (1983), 2 (this coin); Pirie, Guide 2.1a-b; SCBI 63 (BM), 758; North 178; SCBC 847. Good VF, toned, off center on obverse.

From the Dr. JDR Collection, purchased from Spink, August 1984. Found near Sancton, North Humberside, Yorkshire, between 1979-1982.