435, Lot: 563. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Continental Sceattas. Circa 695-800. AR Sceatt (11mm, 0.88 g). Series E (uncertain subtype). Uncertain mint in Frisia (?). ‘Porcupine’ right, containing four lines / Standard with cental annulet, long crosses potent facing in opposite directions, and pellets; pattern outside of standard. EMC 2008.0242 = Coin Register 2009, 124 (this coin); Abramson 98.10; SCBI 69 (Abramson), 277; SCBC –. Near VF, some porosity. Extremely rare reverse variety.

Found Harston, Cambridgeshire, 2008.