Watch List notes:

ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 720-735. AR Sceatt (13mm, 1.08 g, 3h). Series K, type 42c (Style A-B). Mint in Essex or Kent. Diademed and draped bust right, knot behind head, holding cross / Lion standing left, head reverted, eating berries from bush in background. SCBI 20 (Mack), 354 (this coin); Metcalf & Walker 19 (same dies); Abramson 41.40; MEC 8 Series Kc; North 101; SCBC 803A. Old cabinet tone, some very light porosity. Good VF.


From the James & Martha Robertson Collection, purchased from Wolfshead Gallery, April 2003. Ex R. P. Mack Collection (Part II, Glendining's, 23 March 1977), lot 21 (citation to pl. VII, 25 in Metcalf & Walker is erroneous), purchased from A.H. Baldwin & Sons, 11 October 1947.