Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series QIF, type 71, slender standing female figure facing, holding angled long cross pommée either side, pellets in field, rev. Sea bird or eagle, left, with three tail feathers, rounded feet splayed, wing curled above back, pellets in field, 0.90g (SL 63-80 plate coin; SCBI 69, 622 this coin; T&S pp. 488-95, 382-5; Gannon 28-9, 39, 53, 65, 87, 101, no. 159, 148-50, 175, 191-2, and Figs. 2.7b, 2.44; North 115; Spink 808B plate coin), a broad striking with weakness to peripheries, otherwise a bolder very fine, very rare.
provenance
T Owen, January 1998
Estimate: £700 - £500