Triton XXI, Lot: 1337. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 710-760. AR Sceatt (11.5mm, 1.17 g, 6h). Type 30a. Mint in the East Midlands. ‘Wodan head’ facing, with long beard / Two figures standing facing, each holding a scepter in outer hand; three pellets between. Abramson 105.20 (same dies as illustration); Metcalf –; SCBI 63 (BM), 715; North 170; SCBC 835. Near EF, lustrous.

From the Dr. JDR Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XXIII.1 (Winter 1998), no. 146.