Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series J, type 37, diademed heads with braided hair, facing each other with a trident long cross between, double beaded border, rev. a whorl of four birds, in a linear style, themselves forming a cross clockwise around the central cross pommée, 0.99g (SL 19-30; SCBI 69, 387 this coin; T&S pp. 353-5, 296-300; Gannon 37-9, 73, 86, no. 51, 107, no. 5, 110-11, 160, and Figs. 2.19, 4.3a; North 135; Spink 802A), light porosity, otherwise a bolder very fine, rare.
provenance
A Gillis, July 2008,
~ Found at Pocklington (Lincs) ~ ,
[EMC 2009.0057]
Estimate: £200 - £250