Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series F, variety c, type 24b, heavy-jowled and helmeted bust right, wide-brim with neck guard without privy mark, large nose to forehead, pellet lips, cross pattée behind, blundered legend in square lettering, rev. cross pattée on steps, annulets on limbs, pellets between, no votive lettering in field, blundered legend in square lettering, 1.00g, 270° (SL 106-20; SCBI 69, 103 this coin; T&S 125-32, 136-7; Gannon 49, 177, no. 142, 184, no. 22, Fig. 2.37b; North 62; Spink 781), a hint of surface porosity and toning in recesses, a really bold very fine, scarce.
provenance
T Webb-Ware, May 1997
Estimate: £250 - £200