Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series F, variety b, type 24b, heavy-jowled and helmeted bust right, wide-brim and neck guard inset with privy mark, large nose to forehead, pellet lips, cross below chin, cross pattée behind, blundered legend in square lettering, rev. cross pattée on steps, annulets on limbs, votive lettering in field, blundered legend in square lettering, 1.04g, 0° (SL 106-30; Metcalf, 2016, 50; SCBI 69, 104 this coin; T&S 125-32, 136-7; Gannon 49, 177, no. 142, 184, no. 22, Fig. 2.37b; North 62; Spink 781), off-struck, otherwise of good fabric, about extremely fine.
provenance
D Panton, April 2006
~ Found at Heckington, towards South Kesteven District (Lincolnshire), 2003 ~
cf. 'The Searcher', September 2003, pp. 66-69
[PAS: LIN-B20C13 = EMC 2006.0265 = BNJ Coin Register 2007, no. 133]
Estimate: £250 - £200