Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series W, type 54, variety 1B, standing, three-quarter length figure, looking right, long wispy hair and jutting beard, holding long cross pommée either side in skeletal arms and fingers, wearing 'lorica hamata' mailcoat, rev. cross crosslet on saltire cross, central pellet, 1.10g (SL 108-20; SCBI 69, 148 this coin; T&S pp. 152-7, 155; Gannon 62, 65, 87, 160, no. 21, 161, Figs. 2.56, 5.6b; North 148; Spink 787), slight surface porosity and a scratch to reverse, otherwise a bold very fine, rare.
provenance
K Chapman, June 2005
~ Found near Fakenham (Norfolk) ~
[EMC 2005.0262 = BNJ Coin Register 2006, no. 103]
Estimate: £800 - £500