Watch List notes:

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, 'Money of the Saints', Series T derivative, E LVNDONIM, diademed bust right, almond-shaped eye, wreath ties behind, rev. quilled crescent left enclosing three bars, symbol below, 1.15g, 90° (SL 2, 25-50, plate coin; SCBI 69, 534 this coin; T&S pp. 435-6, 348; Naismith, 2014a, pp. 68-121; T&S pp. 416-21, 336-40; Gannon 76, 87, 95, 98, 140, no. 231, 181, 189, no. 62, Figs. 3.19c, 3.22a and 4.48b), a truly extraordinary coin, with only faint porosity encroaching on lightly toned and richly engraved fields, a marvellous example, almost extremely fine, and of the highest rarity in this condition.
provenance
Acquired privately from finder, December 2014,
~ Found by B Scott at Canterbury (Kent) ~


Estimate: £1000 - £1500