Watch List notes:

ANGLO-SAXON, Primary Sceattas. Circa 690/700-710/40. AR Sceatt (12mm, 1.15 g). Series W, type 54. Mint in the Hampshire basin (Wessex). Figure standing facing, head right, holding long cross pommée in each hand / Cross-crosslet on saltire cross with central pellet. Metcalf, First, variety 1B; Abramson 108.20; MEC 8 Series W1, 139–40; SCBC 787. Toned, some light porosity. Good VF. Rare.


From the James & Martha Robertson Collection. Ex Andrew Wayne Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 72, 14 June 2006), lot 2424.