Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series U, type 23b, small figure looking left, wearing cynehelm, round shoulders, standing in decked crescent boat, small hands, feet left, holding long cross pommée in each hand, rev. disjointed, long-necked bird (swan ?), pellet eye, striding right, in foliage, pecking berries (or serpent attacking from below), upward curled wing, linear and beaded borders, 0.80g, 180° (SL 45-20, plate coin; SCBI 69, 790 this coin; MEC 8 Series Ub; North 83; Spink 816 plate coin), some porosity and surface delamination, nonetheless lightly toned and quite pleasing, a bolder very fine.
provenance
T Owen, January 1998,
~ Found at Kilham (East Yorks), March 1997 ~
Estimate: £400 - £500