Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
November 1920
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/457
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    26 28 29 30 31 Sceattas (4), (B. M. Cat. pl. tv, 3), dragon-like animal to left, rev. standing figure holding two long crosses ; (pl. 1V, 9), fantastic animal, sev. ornamental spiral, 2 specimens ; (pl. x1V), a variety having four dots in form of cross below the bust, and two annulets enclosing pellets on rev., all fine and scarce varieties 4 Sceattas (3), (B. M. Cat. pl. 1, 8), bird with long feathers standing up from back, sev. square compartment (2), varied; (pl. m1, 24 var.), bust facing to right with cross pommée in front, 7¢v. standing figure holding bird and cross, all fine 3 Sceattas (3), (B. MW. Cat. m1, 29), two heads vis-A-vis with long cross between, sev. a rose; (pl. 111, 18), bearded head facing, vev. animal to left; and another, bust to right, holding cross, rev. bird with spread tail, all in good state cis 3 PENNY SERIES—SILVER. MERCIA. Offa, Penny, without bust, + oFrra REX between dotted lines, with Mercian Y above; sev. EOBA between plain lines, with a cross pattée at each end, pk Os above and three crosses pattée below, a scarce type, fine, but badly cracked, an unpublished variety 1 *,* From the Wigan, Marsham and Montagu collections. Offa, Penny, with obv. similar to that in last lot ; rev. a central lozenge-shaped compartment containing a dotted cross, the points of lozenge extended and terminating in a pellet which forms centre of circle, between the four circles thus formed is the moneyer’s name RE G NI BT, wnpublished reverse type, slightly cracked, and perforated by corrosion. | ] Offa, Penny, draped bust to right, +OFFA REX +; 7@v. PE H VA LD between the limbs of a cruciform figure on which is an orna- mental cross flory (B. A. Cat. pl. v1, 5, and Rud. 4, 8), in good state and very rare ; 4 Coenwulf, Penny, obv. + LOENVVLF REX around a dotted circle in which T ; rev. tribrach with moneyer’s name EP EL MOD in the angles, very fine and rare - . a Coenwulf, Penny, with bust to right, LOENVVLF REX @; rev. +JVERFEARDI G@OMTA, a cross-flory with dot in centre (B. J/. _ Cat. vin, 16), rare and very fine [PI. 1 1
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