Watch List notes:

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 32a, diademed and draped bust right, almond-shaped eye, small mouth, "Hwiccian" neck, wreath ties behind, cupping cross pommée before, pellet on shaft of cross, rev. serpent headed, coiled 'lion' right, erect ear, round eye, encircled by extended, beaded tongue in knot, ending in serpent head, left, above, beaded border, 1.13g, 180° (SL 40-40, plate coin; SCBI 69, 419 this coin; North 89; Spink 803C), faint traces of porosity, otherwise toned, a bolder very fine, rare.
provenance
J Philpotts, March 2014,
Reportedly found in Essex


Estimate: £500 - £600