Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series V, type 7, wolf with long limbs and tail right, looking down and back to suckling twins, row of droplets between twins, rev. songbird with back turned, beak open, some cross-hatching on left wing, delicately poised astride two stalks, pecking berries right, 1.20g, 90° (SL 62-10 plate coin; Abramson, 2012a, Fig 32; 2012b, Fig 7; SCBI 69, 801 this coin; T&S pp. 570-5, 453; Gannon 119, 139, no. 225, 144-5, 185, Figs. 4.18a, 4.53; MEC 8 Series V; North 120; Spink 817 plate coin), slightly off-struck flan, otherwise of excellent fabric, about extremely fine and scarce.
provenance
T Owen, June 1998
Estimate: £1000 - £800