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Auction: 19007 - Coins and Commemorative Medals: Winter Auction
Lot: 19

Northumbria, Aethelred I, first reign (774-779), silver Sceat, 0.89g, edilred, l and r inverted and outward facing, around small central cross pommée, rev. stylised stag right with long curling tail framing a cross pommée, triquetra below, two pellets beside front legs (Abramson -; EMC 2012.0137, this coin; Stewartby I, 55; N.180; S.850), well-centred and struck-up, a pleasing coin, good very fine and extremely rare

provenance
Spink auction 213, 26-27 June 2012, lot 402
~ Coin Register, 2013, A.103 ~
Found near Nafferton, Driffield, East Yorkshire, September 2011


Single find records for this issue cluster around East Yorkshire. The SCBI/EMC records eight examples of Aethelred I Sceattas with the stag reverse of which five have the triquetra below and cross within the tail loop, this being one of the best.

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