CNG 109, Lot: 871. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Northumbria. Aelfwald I. 779/80-788. AR Sceatt (12mm, 1.04 g, 7h). Class B. York mint. AELF-ALDVS (retrograde and partially inverted) read from the outside, from the bottom in two parts, central cross pattée; cross above / Heraldic quadruped standing right, raising foreleg. Cf. Booth, Sceattas, Class B (unlisted variety); Pirie, Guide 2.9a var. (legend); SCBI 69 (Abramson), 873 (same dies); North 181 var. (cross on reverse); SCBC 851. VF, toned, very light porosity. Rare.