Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series BZ, type 29b, impressionistic haloed Christ head facing, bell-shaped hair style, chevron chin, crosses above, blundered legend, crosses above, rev. skeletal bird right on cross fourchée on trident, unbalanced annulet each side, beaded border, vestigial legend in margin, 1.21g, 90° (SL 17-25, plate coin; T&S pp. 345-53, 293; Gannon 36, 48, no. 170, 107, no. 5, 109-12, Figs. 2.18b and 4.2a; North 131; Spink 778), finely incised on a short flan, a really good very fine, extremely rare.
provenance
K Chapman, March 2018,
~ Found at Loddenham, near Ipswich (Suffolk) ~
Estimate: £800 - £1000