CNG 111, Lot: 1053. Estimate $400. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Northumbria. Eadberht. 737-758. AR Sceatt (12mm, 0.92 g, 12h). Class E. York mint. EOTBREHTVΓ counterclockwise around central cross pattée in beaded border with pellets in angles / Heraldic quadruped standing left, raising foreleg; cross in curve of tail, triquetra below. Booth, Sceattas Class E, 5 (dies C/c) = Booth & Blowers 9 (this coin); Chapman 60 (same obv. die); SCBI 63 (BM), 766 (same obv. die); Pirie, Guide 2.1e (same obv. die as illustration); North 178; SCBC 847. Good VF, toned.

From the Ealing Collection. Ex Numismatic Circular CXI.4 (August 2003), no. HS1300; David B. Feather Collection (Sotheby’s, 6 November 1997), lot 412. Found Newbald, East Yorkshire (formerly ‘Sancton’), between October 1979 and September 1982.