Watch List notes:

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series H, 'Celtic cross', type 48, clockwise whorl of three serpents, with gaping jaws, erect ears and wasp-like bodies, extended linear tongues, central pellet, rev. void Celtic cross, enclosing pellet cross and curving around rosettes in angles, beaded border, 0.91g (SL 47-10; SCBI 69, 357 this coin; T&S pp. 333-40, 289-92; Gannon 174, 180, Fig. 5.5; Spink 801B plate coin), somewhat porous and waterworn, otherwise a bolder very fine, scarce.
provenance
N Mills, January 2008


Estimate: £200 - £250