Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 2103. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON. Primary Sceattas. East Anglia. Circa 680-710. AR Sceatta (1.16 gm, 12h). Series Z imitative. Facing head with long hair, moustache, and beard / Long-legged hound right; pellets in fields. Metcalf p. 138, fig.; cf. North 145; SCBC 782 var. (no pellets). EF, toned. Very rare. ($750)

From the Dr. Thomas Dailey Collection.

This type, imitating series Z, first appeared in the Kings Lynn find in the early 1990s (see Metcalf, p. 137).