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<p>[QUOTE="Roerbakmix, post: 4889258, member: 100731"]Very interesting [USER=73099]@Nap[/USER]. With help of [USER=87271]@AnYangMan[/USER] and personal communication with Tony Abramson, I had already figured out the correct identification. However, little information is available online, and your post gave me some additional information. E.g.; you write that the runic inscription of WIGRAED is "certainly" spelled wrong: what does it read (I'm not able to read runic)?</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the WIGRAED type appears to be scarce. I've found only 10 or so (ACsearch, Sixbid, PAN, Fitzwilliam, the de Wit collection (kunker), sceatta list by Abramson, random google searches, and cointalk (ie yours) combined). I do not own the standard work by Metcalf yet (on the lookout for it): but what other sources do you usually search?</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=84065]@Edessa[/USER] that's a wonderful series R, with superb toning and nice provenance. Do you have other sceatta's to share? </p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=110504]@+VGO.DVCKS[/USER] I really appreciate the compliments. However, it's not really too difficult to get a basic knowledge about sceatta's in general. I know a thing or two about continental (i.e. series D and E; resp. bust/cross and 'porcupine'/standard sceatta's), however, the <i>true</i> Anglo-Saxon sceatta's are just as abstract as the series D-E where to me a year ago. (Which is what I like about coin collection: the steep learning curves that are possible.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roerbakmix, post: 4889258, member: 100731"]Very interesting [USER=73099]@Nap[/USER]. With help of [USER=87271]@AnYangMan[/USER] and personal communication with Tony Abramson, I had already figured out the correct identification. However, little information is available online, and your post gave me some additional information. E.g.; you write that the runic inscription of WIGRAED is "certainly" spelled wrong: what does it read (I'm not able to read runic)? Also, the WIGRAED type appears to be scarce. I've found only 10 or so (ACsearch, Sixbid, PAN, Fitzwilliam, the de Wit collection (kunker), sceatta list by Abramson, random google searches, and cointalk (ie yours) combined). I do not own the standard work by Metcalf yet (on the lookout for it): but what other sources do you usually search? [USER=84065]@Edessa[/USER] that's a wonderful series R, with superb toning and nice provenance. Do you have other sceatta's to share? [USER=110504]@+VGO.DVCKS[/USER] I really appreciate the compliments. However, it's not really too difficult to get a basic knowledge about sceatta's in general. I know a thing or two about continental (i.e. series D and E; resp. bust/cross and 'porcupine'/standard sceatta's), however, the [I]true[/I] Anglo-Saxon sceatta's are just as abstract as the series D-E where to me a year ago. (Which is what I like about coin collection: the steep learning curves that are possible.)[/QUOTE]
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