Watch List notes:

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series O, type 40, figure facing, wearing long tunic, long cross pommée at either side, pellets on shaft of crosses and in field, feet left, rev. monster left, looking back, gaping mouth, leg raised behind head, raised curling tail, pellet outline, fur beneath, clawed feet below, 1.12g, 270° (SL 55-10, plate coin; SCBI 69, 600 this coin; T&S pp. 477-81; North 114; Spink 807B), a superb example for issue, well-centred and in high relief, almost extremely fine or better but for very faint traces of surface porosity, rare thus.
provenance
Acquired privately from finder, April 2008
~ Found by K Tebb at Great Ponton (Lincs) ~,
[EMC 2009.0067]



Estimate: £300 - £400