Watch List notes:

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series L, type 15 variety, London, diademed and draped bust right, smooth folds, horizontal centrally, wreath-ties unknotted, long cross pommée on base before, pellets on shaft of cross, rev. square-shouldered, figure facing, head left, wearing cynehelm and cross-hatched tunic, belt and plain tunic with pellets at hem, standing in crescent boat, holding long cross pommée and bird of prey, perch below, exergual (water or deck?) line, 0.88g, 180° (SL 33-75 plate coin; SCBI 69, 476 this coin; Gannon 59, 60, 70-2, and Figs. 2.67, 2.68a; North 68; Spink 804C), flan split through head, and light surface porosity, otherwise a handsome striking, a really bold very fine, extremely rare.
provenance
M Hollyfield, October 2016
~ Found at Melbourne (Cambridgeshire) ~
[EMC 2017.0036]
Estimate: £500 - £400