Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series O, type 40 or Q related, standing figure, large head left, triangular body, feet left, elaborate cross left, two plain crosses right, one above hair curl, rev. Hirsute monster fleeing left, looking back, striated body, pellets in field, 0.92g, 270° (SL 107-10 plate coin; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 21a; SCBI 69, 810 this coin; T&S pp. 477-81, 378-81; Gannon 137, 148-50, and Figs. 3.17, 4.43, 4.60; Spink 807B), trace double-striking and scratches, otherwise toned, about very fine and extremely rare.
provenance
Acquired privately from finder, September 2010
~ Found by W Gemmell at Willoughby-on-the-Wolds (Leicestershire) ~.
[EMC 2011.0036 and 2012.0047 = BNJ Coin Register 2012, no. 77]
Estimate: £400 - £300