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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roerbakmix, post: 4545957, member: 100731&quot;]While I realize that this thread is nearly two years old, I find myself coming back to it just to admire the pretty sceatta&#039;s of Nab&#039;s collection. In fact, it inspired me to focus on them. As I&#039;ve just rephotographed my (now 11) sceatta&#039;s, and bump this thread back to page one, I&#039;ll post them here instead of starting a new thread, in the hope that others will be inspired as well.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The series D</b>, continental sceatta&#039;s with runic inscriptions. There are three main categories: </p><ul> <li>type 8 (a standard on the reverse, runic inscriptions on the obverse), </li> <li>type 2c (resembling the series C type 2c: a bust on the obverse, often with runic inscriptions, and runic inscriptions on the reverse), and </li> <li>the very rare type 10 (a bust resembling the type 2c with runic inscriptions on the obverse, and a &#039;porcupine&#039; bust with <i>latin</i> inscriptions on the reverse - in my understanding the only sceat with latin inscriptions)</li> </ul><p>Type 8:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1125399[/ATTACH]ANGLO-SAXON, Anonymous. Denomination: AR Sceatta (series D, type 8), minted: Frisia or Domburg; 695-715 AD</p><p>Obv: Central cross with garbled runic legend around</p><p>Rev: Standard with central annulet,</p><p>Weight: 0.63g; Ø:10mm. Catalogue: . Provenance: Ex Jan van Bergen; acq.: 11-2019&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1125403[/ATTACH]</p><p>ANGLO-SAXON, Anonymous. Denomination: AR Sceatta (Series D type 8), minted: Netherlands; 690-720</p><p>Obv: Dotted standard, annulet with pellet in center, around three V and one I, dot between. Outside standard, a pellet and largely off-center garbled legend</p><p>Rev: Runic inscription (A V H) around cross-pommee, pellets around</p><p>Weight: 1.18g; Ø:12mm. Catalogue: . Provenance: Possibly found in Northern France; acq.: 05-2020</p><p><br /></p><p>Type 2c:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1125402[/ATTACH] </p><p>ANGLO-SAXON, Anonymous. Denomination: AR Sceatta (series D, BMC type 2c), minted: Frisia; 690-715 AD</p><p>Obv: Degenerated diademed head, runic inscriptings before</p><p>Rev: Central cross-pommee with dots on each corner; cross above, annulet below.</p><p>Weight: 1.23g; Ø:11mm. Catalogue: . Provenance: Metal detecting find Oud-Zevenaar, near the assumed location of an 8th century church. ; acq.: 04-2020</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1125409[/ATTACH] </p><p>ANGLO-SAXON, Anonymous. Denomination: AR Sceatta (series D, type 2c, sub-variety 3c), minted: Possibly England; 695-715 AD</p><p>Obv: Abstract head</p><p>Rev: Central cross with four pellets around, below annulet, above cross patté, runic letters around.</p><p>Weight: 1.08g; Ø:13mm. Catalogue: . Provenance: Ex private collection (09-2019); acq.: 09-2019</p><p>Series D (Continental Runetype), Type 2c, sub-variety 3c (with head right (it often faces left in sub-variety 3c), reverse die-match to the major 3c die-chain). Based on find-material, these are quite possibly English imitations of the continental sceattas, which in turn are imitations of early English Sceattas.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Type 10</b></p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1125411[/ATTACH] </b></p><p>ANGLO-SAXON, Anonymous. Denomination: AR Sceatta (series D, BMC type 10), minted: Likely the Netherlands; c.700-715 AD</p><p>Obv: Crowned bust to the right with pellets as hair. Sharp, portruding nose. Runic inscription aepa in front</p><p>Rev: Radiated &#039;porcupine&#039; or &#039;moonface&#039; bust, to the right. Runic inscription ticv in front.</p><p>Weight: 1.16g; Ø:12mm. Catalogue: Op den Velde die chain 312-325 (obverse); 318-319 (reverse). Abramson 9-10; BMC type 10;. Provenance: Metal detecting find Oud-Zevenaar, near the assumed location of an 8th century church. NUMIS nr. 1150617; acq.: 04-2020</p><p>The series D sceatas consists of three distinct styles: the BMC type 8, showing a standard on the obverse and a runic inscription on the reverse; the BMC type 2c (which is the most abundant) showing a bust, facing right on most coins, with a runic inscription in front, and the same runic inscription as type 8, and BMC type 10, showing the same bust as type 2c (die links have been found) and a &#039;porcupine&#039; radiate bust on the reverse. This coin (BMC type 10) is closely connected to the mint of type 2C (as suggested by the die links), but much rarer - fewer than 30 specimens of this coin are known, possibly indicating a smaller, independent mint.</p><p>This coin is die linked to chain 312-325 (obverse die link), and 318-319 (reverse die link), minted in Kerk-Averza and Escharen. Other find locations of this type are IJzendoorn, Valkenburg and Ven-Zederheide. Locations in the United Kingdom include Bedford and Bawsey; two locations are unsure (one in Friesland, and one unknown).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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