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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 1448. Estimate $1500. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007. 
Sold For $3550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of Northumbria. Alchred. 765-774. AR Sceat (0.92 g, 7h). York mint. +ALCHhED (partially retrograde), cross pattée / Heraldic quadruped standing right, raising foreleg; cross below. Beowulf 115 = Pirie, Guide 2.5c = J. Booth, “Sceattas in Northumbria” in: Sceattas in England and on the Continent (Oxford, 1984), 12 (this coin); North 179; SCBC 849. Good VF, dark find patina. Very rare.



From the Beowulf Collection.