Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series L, type 15 variety, diademed and draped bust left, large eye, long nose from brow, crescent ear, matted hair with three unknotted wreath ties, cross pommée left, pellet on shaft, rev. figure, head left, wearing short, pleated smock, holding long cross pommée, right, and bird of prey, left, perch below, exergual (water or deck?) line, 0.80g, 90° (SL 33-100, plate coin; SCBI 69, 481 this coin; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 1b; North 68; Spink 804C), small flan split and the obverse a touch off-struck, otherwise a bolder very fine, very rare.
provenance
Baldwin, May 2002
Estimate: £450 - £550