Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series H, type 49, Hamwic, small moustached 'Wodan' head with beaded outline framed in 10 roundels, rev. Peacock striding right, rosette before, pellet between legs, 1.04g, 0° (SL 48-1010 plate coin; SCBI 69, 375 this coin; T&S pp. 321-36, 285-8; Gannon 28, 36, 113, 120, 123, 180, 190, no. 74, and Figs. 2.6, 4.19), of marginally baser fabric than previous and traces of surface stresses, otherwise very fine, very rare.
provenance
Acquired privately from finder, March 2013
~ Found by A Davies, near Andover (Hampshire), 2011 ~
Estimate: £350 - £250