Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series T, type 9, variety 3, bust right, with less elaborate diadem, wreath ties behind, wearing jewelled tunic, cross pattée before with legend NVVM (TANUM?), rev. quilled crescent left, enclosing four pelleted bars, 1.01g, 0° (SL 25-30; SCBI 69, 780 this coin. T&S pp. 545-51, 442-4; Gannon 48, no. 173, 53, 53, no. 206, 180, Fig. 5.28a; North 80; Spink 815), a beautiful example, extremely fine, very rare.
provenance
Michael J Grover, DNW 79, 24 September 2008, lot 3405
Estimate: £1000 - £800