Northumbria, Eadberht, Secondary Phase (737-758), Sceat, class Ei, beaded borders, EOTBERETVl· retrograde, around cross pattée, rev. fantastic animal with neck bent forward, standing right, foreleg and back leg raised, tail looped, pointing down, enclosing cross pattée, triquetra below, 1.11g, 180° (SL 70-150 plate coin; SCBI 69, 845 this coin; Bude, 2014, Figs 4&8; North 178; Spink 847), slightly waterworn, otherwise residual dark tone in recesses, very fine.
provenance
J Ogden, May 2009
~ Reportedly found "north of Humber" (Yorkshire) ~
[EMC 2010.0031 = BNJ Coin Register 2010, no. 140]
Estimate: £220 - £280