Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series J, type 37, diademed heads with braided hair, facing, long cross between, crude style, rev. a whorl of four birds, in a linear style, themselves forming a cross clockwise around the central cross pommée, double beaded border, 0.92g (SL 19-30; SCBI 69, 389 this coin; North 135; Spink 802A), quite base with only faint traces of silvering remaining, good very fine, very rare.
provenance
J Philpotts, January 2014
Estimate: £100 - £120