Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series F, variety c, type 24b, helmeted bust right, wide-brim and neck guard inset with triangular privy mark, nose to forehead, pellet lips, three pellets before, cross (?) below chin and behind, blundered legend in square lettering, rev. cross pattée on steps, pellet either side and between steps, annulets in lower quarters, blundered legend in square lettering, 1.22g, 0° (SL 106-35; SCBI 69, 106 this coin; T&S 125-32; 136-7; North 62; Spink 781), toned with slight surface porosity, otherwise a really bold very fine.
provenance
M Vosper, March 2010
Estimate: £450 - £350