Anglo-Saxon England, Eclectic Series (710-760), Sceat, Annulet cross variety, "wedge-face" degenerate bust left, Z-shaped brow and nose, headdress of linear and pellet lines, vestigial runic (?) legend before, short beaded pyramidical neck rests on curved exergual line, rev. annulet cross, a pellet in each annulet, trefoils in angles, within double beaded border, 1.14g (SL 14-40, plate coin; SCBI 69, 751 this coin), lightly toned, a most endearing coin, good very fine and very rare.
provenance
Acquired privately from finder, January 2008,
~ Found by K Mitchell at Ripple, between Deal and Dover (Kent), May 2005 ~, [BNJ Coin Register 2006, no. 143]
Estimate: £100 - £150