Watch List notes:

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 32a, diademed and draped bust right, framed in 'keyhole', braided hair, long nose from brow, knotted wreath ties behind, hand cupping cross pommée before, rev. serpent headed, coiled lion, right, tongue entwines straight foreleg, clearly visibly hind limbs coiled above, lines and pellets form fur behind, 0.98g, 0° (SL 40-20; SCBI 69, 416 this coin; North 89; Spink 803C), darker patina with some peripheral roughness and traces of porosity, otherwise toned, a bold very fine, rare.
provenance
M Vosper, March 2015


Estimate: £700 - £900