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ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 725-730. AR Sceat (11mm, 1.01 g). Type 30b/8 mule. Mint in the East Midlands. ‘Wodan’ head facing / Beaded ‘standard’ with four lines above and below and two trefoils of pellets to left and right of central pellet-in annulet; trefoils of pellets at edges. Abramson 105-130; OdV&K –; North –; SCBC 835. Glossy find patina, small edge chip. Good VF. Rare.
From the J. de Wilde Collection. Ex 51 Gallery (30 May 2013), lot 190.
Though described as a mule of types 30b and 8, this is likely a slight miscategorization. Type 30b is attributed to a mint in the East Midlands, while type 8 is given to a mint in Frisia, perhaps Domburg. The reverse engraving features a somewhat ‘scratchy’ style, with only a single pellet end for the degraded TOTII on the reverse. In contrast, the Frisian types all appear to have ‘thicker’ style, with two pellet ends on each reverse element. Furthermore, while no matches were found at Domburg, nine examples are in the Early Medieval Corpus of Coin Finds made in England, including the present example.
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