Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series BI, heavy-featured diademed head right, cross or jewel above, beaded serpent circle starting at six o'clock, annulets in margin, rev. bird on cross pattée, annulet either side, serpent circle starting at six o'clock, annulets in margin, 1.19g, 0° (SL 16-60; SCBI 69, 62 this coin; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 19a; T&S pp. 94-105, 100-6; Gannon 36, 47, 48, no. 173, 107-10, 112, 136, 184, 184, no. 18, and Figs. 2.18a, 4.1b, and 4.5; North 126; Spink 777), of good silver, with only peripheral striking softness, otherwise a pleasing very fine, scarce.
provenance
P Revell, January 2008
Estimate: £120 - £150