Superb Beatrix Bracteate

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1035. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Quedlinburg (Abtei). Beatrix II von Winzenburg. Abbess, 1138-1160. AR Bracteate Pfennig (0.94 g). BEA – T – RIX, Abbotess seated facing on city wall inscribed BAT – TIRI, holding large lis and Gospel in upraised hands; BE• to left of head, ••D to right; half-length facing busts of nuns, orantes, to left and right; ••• to left of left nun, • above her head / Incuse of obverse. Bonhoff 512; Löbbecke 93; Reichmann 758 (all same die). Superb EF, toned.

From the Collection of a California Gentleman. Ex Peus 383 (27 April 2005), lot 3423.