Anglo-Saxon England, Eclectic Sceattas (710-760), Sceat, 'Celtic Cross', type 58, two cowled standing frontal figures looking at each other, wearing long tunics, long cross pommée at either side and between but with cross member above heads, rev. limbs of Celtic cross narrow to a single line with rosettes nearly touching, a pellet cross superimposed, 1.00g (SL 28-10; SCBI 69, 517 this coin; Spink 822), somewhat waterworn on an elliptical flan, otherwise darkly toned, good fine, very rare.
provenance
K Chapman, September 2005
Estimate: £150 - £250