Watch List notes:

ANGLO-SAXON, Primary Sceattas. Circa 700-710/5. AR Sceatt (11mm, 1.12 g, 1h). Series F, variety c3, type 24a. Mint in the middle Thames region. Crude bust right, wearing pelleted headdress; pseudo-legend around / Cross set on two steps with pellet between; annulets at ends of arms, pellets in upper quarters and between steps, pseudo-legend around. Metcalf, Archbishop's 92–3 (same dies); Abramson 106.20 (same dies as illustration); MEC 8 Series Fa; SCBC 781. Toned. Good VF.


From the James & Martha Robertson Collection, purchased from Wolfshead Gallery, 14 October 2005.