445, Lot: 703. Estimate $200. Sold for $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANGLO-SAXON, Continental Sceattas. Circa 695-715/20. AR Sceatt (12mm, 1.05 g, 12h). Series E, Primary ('Aston Rowant') phase, plumed bird var. K (Type 6). Mint in southern Frisia. Plumed bird right, with head bent down and forked tail; cross pommée below head triple pellets below tail / Beaded standard, with central pellet-in-annulet; double or triple pellets above and below; pelleted staff in each corner. M&OdV 297-8; Abramson 87.30; SCBI 63 (BM), 304; North 49; SCBC 790K. Good VF, toned, scrape on obverse.

From the Ealing Collection, purchased from Spink, February 2001. Reportedly ex Aston Rowant Hoard.