Exceptional Beonna Sceatt

CNG 112, Lot: 805. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of East Anglia. Beonna. Circa 749-760/5. AR Sceatt (15mm, 1.04 g, 4h). Mint in northern East Anglia (Thetford?); Efe, moneyer. Struck circa 757-760/5. BEOnna REX (nna in Runic) around pellet within beaded circle / Central lozenge with joined qiuncunx; + \ E \ F \ E in quadrants, triple-pellets flanking each letter. Archibald dies O2/R4; SCBI 63 (BM), 789 (same dies); North 430; SCBC 945. Trace of find deposit on reverse. Near EF. A particularly well struck example in good metal. Very rare thus.