Watch List notes:

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series U, type 23c, female figure forward, standing in crescent boat which almost encircles figure, long hair curled to each side, deep eyes, holding long cross pommée either side, feet splayed, tiny bird or animal, sharp beaked to left, wide-jawed to right, linear border, rev. disjointed linear long-necked bird right in foliage, pecking berries or 'attacking a snake', wing raised, segmented body, feet splayed, 1.11g, 0° (SL 45-60 plate coin; Abramson, 2012b, plate; SCBI 69, 795 this coin; cf. William L. Subjack, Vecchi 11, 5 June 1998, lot 86; T&S pp. 568-9, 452; Gannon 66, 87, 89, 91, no. 86 and 88, 93, 117-19, 138, no. 217, 141, 185, and Figs. 3.10a; 3.14, 3.18a, 4.13, 4.49a; MEC 8 Series Ub; North 83; Spink 816 plate coin), a most attractive type coin, good very fine, very rare.
provenance
Beowulf, CNG 75, 23 May 2007, lot 1397
M Vosper, March 1998
Estimate: £1500 - £1200