Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series H, type 49, variety 3, Hamwic, central face in beaded circle, seven roundels, three pellets below, rev. peacock striding right, head feathers raised, roundel above, cross pommée before, pellet in each right-hand quadrant, 0.93g, 0° (SL 48-735; SCBI 69, 365 this coin; North 108, Spink 801A), light porosity and verdigris in recesses otherwise of baser fabric but well centred on an elliptical flan, a pleasingly bold very fine and extremely rare.
provenance
M Barker, October 2013,
~ Found at Shrewton (Wilts) ~
Estimate: £180 - £220