Watch List notes:

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series U, type 23d, Imitative, female figure looking right, wearing cynehelm and smock, standing in crescent boat, small hands holding long cross pommée either side, rev. disjointed, long-necked bird (swan ?), striding right, in foliage, pellet outline to neck, pecking berries (or serpent attacking from below), upward curled wing, 0.70g, 180° (SL 45-50; SCBI 69, 794 this coin; MEC 8 Series Ub; North 83; Spink 816), of copper alloy with some verdigris corrosion, otherwise a handsome dark green patina, very fine / a bolder very fine, scarce.
provenance
D Watson, January 2005


Estimate: £200 - £250