Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series B or G/J mule, type 85, crude diademed head right with large features, braided hair, angular nose and ear, pellet lips, cross pommée before with pellet below, arm below holding cross (or crescent shaped collar?), rev. outline dove, right, on cross pommée, quatrefoil of berries before bird, pellets-in-annulets on limbs, 0.90g, 315° (SL 22-20, plate coin; SCBI 69, 331 this coin; Abramson, 2008, Fig 37; T&S pp. 409-11, 319-22; Spink 800B plate coin), rich green patina masking porosity, almost extremely fine, very rare.
provenance
I Vecchi, September 1998,
~ Found at Sleaford (Lincs), 1997 ~ ,
[EMC 1998.0065]
Estimate: £180 - £220