Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series N, type 41b/a, two figures forward, figure on right looking left, wearing cloaks and long tunics, cross pommée either side, groundline, rev. monster right, looking back, biting forked tail, beaded crest left, pellet outline, 0.98g, 180° (SL 52-50, plate coin; SCBI 69, 580 this coin; MEC 8 Series Nb; North 99; Spink 806), the obverse a touch off-struck, otherwise lightly toned with only muted hints of porosity, otherwise very fine, the reverse pleasingly so.
provenance
Acquired privately from finder, January 2009,
~ Found by S Harmer at Ashford (Kent), August 2008 ~,
[EMC 2010.0016 = BNJ Coin Register 2010, no. 112]
Estimate: £220 - £280