Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series U, type 23b, female looking right, long hair, round shoulders, standing in crescent boat with pellet finials, holding long cross pommée in enormous hands, rev. disjointed long-necked bird (swan ?) striding right, in foliage, pecking berries (or serpent attacking from below), upward curled wing, 1.20g, 90° (SL 45-10, plate coin; SCBI 69, 782 this coin; T&S pp. 552-67, 445-8; Gannon 66, 87, 89, 91, no. 86 and 88, 93, 117-19, 138, no. 217, 141, 185, and Figs. 3.10a; 3.14, 3.18a, 4.13, 4.49a; MEC 8 Series Ub; North 83; Spink 816 plate coin), of good metal with only faint wisps of porosity, a pleasingly bold very fine and rather pleasing.
provenance
N Mills, January 2005,
Reportedly found in East Anglia
Estimate: £300 - £400