Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series O, type 57, snub nosed bust, right, long straight hair swept back, within beaded circle breached by neck, cable border, rev. Monster in flight left, looking back with gaping jaws and raised, curled tail, chest hirsute, clawed foot below, bent foreleg, raised to head, 0.90g, 180° (SL 54-10; SCBI 69, 594 this coin; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 1b; T&S pp. 474-5, 377; North -; Spink 807C plate coin), irregular flan and a patch of delamination before bust, otherwise of good fabric, almost extremely fine, very rare.
provenance
M Vosper, March 1999
Estimate: £700 - £500