434, Lot: 542. Estimate $100. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ANGLO-SAXON, Primary Sceattas. Circa 685-700. AR Sceatt (13mm, 1.00 g, 6h). Series BIb, type 27b. Mint in Essex or East Anglia. Diademed bust right, breaking inner border; blundered legend around / Bird standing right upon cross; annulet and pellet flanking; all within
ouroboros; three annulets below, blundered legend around. EMC 2008.0149 (
this coin); Abramson 16.10 var. (four annulets around cross); SCBI 69 (Abramson), 52; North 126; SCBC 777. VF, toned, porous.
From the Londinium Collection. Found in Harston, by 2008.