434, Lot: 543. Estimate $100. Sold for $125. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ANGLO-SAXON, Primary Sceattas. Circa 695-705. AR Sceatt (11.5mm, 1.18 g, 6h). Series F, variety d, type 24a. Mint in the middle Thames region. Crude bust right, wearing pelleted headdress; pseudo-legend around / Cross set on two steps with pellet between; annulets at ends of arms, pellets in quarters, pseudo-legend around. Metcalf,
Archbishop's 134 = EMC 2008.0010 (
this coin); cf. Abramson 106.50; SCBI 63 (BM), 155–6; SCBC 781. VF, toned.
From the Londinium Collection. Found in Wiltshire, by 2008.