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Auction 21000  18 Mar 2021
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Lot 309

Estimate: 1400 GBP
Price realized: 2200 GBP
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Northumbria, Eadberht (738-758), Sceat, Series Y, class Bi, EOTBEREhTVl· around cross pattée, rev. fantastic animal, standing left, foreleg raised, tail (emanating from mid-back) looped, pointing down, animal has retrograde R enclosed in tail loop and A below, 1.01g, 315° (SL 70-60 plate coin; Abramson 2018b; SCBI 69, 837 this coin; T&S pp. 576-93, 454-70; Gannon 87, 91, no. 83, 92, 127, 129, no. 149, 154, 167, no. 85, 190, no. 74, 192, and Figs. 3.16, 4.27, 4.29a, 4.64a; North 178; Spink 847), slightly baser fabric than the last, otherwise an immensely bold very fine, an incredibly rare variety.
provenance
Acquired privately from finder, May 2011
~ Found by G Thompson at Rillington near Malton (East Yorkshire), April 2010 ~
[EMC 2012.0034 = BNJ Coin Register 2012, no. 79]
Estimate: £2000 - £1500
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