[Mr. Akerman, in his very useful _Numismatic Manual_, p. 227.,
says, "The word _sceatta_ is by some derived from _sceat_, a
_part_ or _portion_. Professor White, in a paper read to the
Ashmolean Society, remarks, that it is of Moeso-Gothic origin,
_scatt_ signifying in the Gospels of Uphilas a _pound_, a _penny_,
and, indeed, money in general." Ruding observes that, "Whatever
might have been the precise value of the _sceatta_, it was
undoubtedly the smallest coin known among the Saxons at the latter
end of the seventh century, as appears from its forming part of a
proverb: Ne sceat ne scilling, _From the least to the greatest_."]
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