445, Lot: 707. Estimate $300. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 710-725. AR Sceatt (12mm, 0.90 g, 1h). Series J, type 36. Mint in Northumbria (probably York). Diademed bust right; cross before / Bird standing right; bird standing on back, cross to right. Abramson 20.10; Metcalf 301–2; SCBI 63 (BM), 480; North 134; SCBC 802D. Good VF, toned, light deposits, off center.

From the Ealing Collection, purchased from Mike R. Vosper, February 1999. Reportedly found near Ely, Cambridgeshire.