Watch List notes:

ANGLO-SAXON, Transitional/Pre-Primary Phase. Circa 665/70-670/5. Pale AV Thrymsa (11.5mm, 1.25 g, 9h). 'Pada' series (Rigold PaIA). Mint in Kent. Helmeted bust right; annulets flanking helmet, CTΛ ZNC (C's retrograde) clockwise around from lower left / Standard inscribed PADA (in Runic); above, cross with annulet terminals flanked by uncertain letters; chevron-barred As to left and right; below, tufa decorated with pellet and two annulets, flanked by ω ω. Sceatta List 1-10; MEC 8 table 3, 31; North 151; SCBC 768. Lightly toned. Good VF. Well centered. Rare.

Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CXVI.3 (June 2008), no. HS 3375.

With the handsome bust derived from a Constantinian prototype, and the distinctive runic inscription in the center of the standard on the reverse, type PaIA is the earliest, and stylistically the finest, of the enigmatic PADA issues.