Triton XIX, Lot: 945. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Continental Sceattas. Circa 720/25-800/20. AR Sceat (11mm, 0.94 g, 7h). Series X, type 31. English imitation of Ribe mint. ‘Wodan’ head facing; trefoil of pellets above, short cross pommée to left and right / Fantastic creature left, head right, with tail coiled leftward; pellet at end of tail, trefoil of pellets at crook. Cf. Abramson 104.10; cf. SCBI 63 (BM), 454; North 116; SCBC 797. Near EF, toned, flan flaw on reverse.

SCBI describes the English imitations as having a “more delicate engraving and naturalist treatment of beard and moustaches,” as well as noting that the hair on the obverse ends in pellets.