441, Lot: 589. Estimate $150. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Continental Sceattas. Circa 740-800. AR Sceatt (13mm, 0.85 g). Series E, Tertiary ('Franeker') phase, var. E. Mint in Frisia (Dorestad). ‘Porcupine’ with triangular head right; three pellets in body / Standard with central annulet, four lines and two pellets around. Abramson 99.15; cf. SCBI 63 (BM), 418 (for obv.); cf. SCBI 69 (Abramson), 281; SCBC 790C. Near EF, rich dark find patina.

Ex 51 Gallery (30 May 2014), lot 175.