437, Lot: 634. Estimate $750. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Northumbria. Ælfwald I. 779/80-788. AR Sceatt (12.5mm, 0.93 g). Class E. York mint. FEVAΓDAS (partially retrograde and/or inverted) read from the inside, central cross pattée / Heraldic quadruped standing right, raising foreleg; rosette above, cross pattée below. Booth, Sceattas, 1–5 var. (unlisted dies); Pirie, Guide 2.9c; North 181; SCBC 851. Near VF, toned, trace deposits, fine cleaning marks. Rare.