Sceatta of Aethelred of Mercia

A request for a valuation on this coin came in from someone signing himself as Rouba. I’m uncertain as to whether or not this is a detecting find.

The coin is an Anglo-Saxon silver sceatta, which is an example of series E, type 105. On the obverse, in two lines within beaded circles, is ATHIL RED in runes. On the reverse is a quelled crescent. Sceattas like this one have been attributed to Aethelred of Mercia, whose dates are AD 674 to705.

In the Standard Catalogue the coin is listed as number 780 and the Abramson type is 92-10. Like many other early Anglo-Saxon coins, this is rare but not as rare as it used to be.

Valuation

Working from the images I received, the coin looks as if it would grade good VF. Recent sale prices suggest that a pre-sale auction estimate on the coin in its present conidian would be £500-600.

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