445, Lot: 695. Estimate $150. Sold for $165. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Primary Sceattas. Circa 685-700. AR Sceatt (12.5mm, 1.10 g, 3h). Series BI A/C, type 27b. Mint in Essex or East Anglia. Diademed bust right within ouroboros; blundered legend around / Bird standing right upon cross; annulets flanking; all within ouroboros; blundered legend around. Abramson 16.40; SCBI 69 (Abramson), 56; North 126; SCBC 777. VF, light deposits.

From the Ealing Collection, purchased from John Cummings, November 1996.