Watch List notes:

ANGLO-SAXON, Secondary Sceattas. Circa 725-730/5. AR Sceatt (12mm, 1.17 g). Celtic/Voided Cross type. Uncertain mint in the south-east. Clockwise coiled quilled serpent with pellet outline and globular head; small cross pattée in center / Celtic cross with annulet in center and at end of each arm; rosettes in quarters; all within beaded circle and surrounding chevrons. Abramson 31.10 (same dies as first example); MEC 8 Series VCf, 435; North –; SCBC 822. EMC 2006.0376 = Coin Register 2007, 193 (this coin). Toned. Good VF. Extremely rare.


From the James & Martha Robertson Collection, purchased from Wolfshead Gallery, June 2008. Found near Ely, Cambridgeshire, November 2006.