ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of East Anglia. Beonna. Circa 749-760/5. AR Sceatt (14mm, 0.97 g, 2h). Mint in northern East Anglia (Thetford?); Efe, moneyer. Struck circa 757-760/5. VF.

Triton XXIX
Lot: 1112. Estimated: $ 1 500

British, Silver

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ANGLO-SAXON, Kings of East Anglia. Beonna. Circa 749-760/5. AR Sceatt (14mm, 0.97 g, 2h). Mint in northern East Anglia (Thetford?); Efe, moneyer. Struck circa 757-760/5. + BEOnna REX (nna in Runic) around pellet within beaded circle / Central lozenge with joined quincunx; + \ E \ F \ E in quadrants, double pellets flanking cross, triple-pellets flanking first two letters. Archibald C51 (dies 11/28) = EMC 1985.0079 (this coin); SCBI 63 (BM) 784-831; North 430; SCBC 945. Find patina, minor mark. VF. Rare. The only recorded example from these dies.

From the James A. Lock Collection. Ex Glendining (10 June 1985), lot 230. Found Hacheston, Suffolk, before 1985.

‘In the 750s or early 760s a little known East Anglian king, Beonna, introduced a reformed coinage with a regal inscription after the Northumbrian model and having on the reverse a geometrical design with a moneyer’s name as on earlier East Anglian issues. The initiative was to be short-lived; it did not survive the Mercian conquest of East Anglia and the imposition of the new penny of Frankish fabric which was to become the staple coin of England throughout the Middle Ages.’ Grierson, p. 36.

The final winners of all Triton XXIX lots will be determined at the live public sale that will be held on 13-14 January 2026.

Triton XXIX – Session Four – Lot 920-1141 will be held Wednesday afternoon, 14 January 2026 beginning at 2:00 PM ET.

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