Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series O, type 40, figure facing, wearing long pleated tunic, long cross pommée at either side, pellets on shaft of crosses and in field, feet left, rev. monster left, looking back, gaping mouth, raised tail, leg raised behind head, pellet outline, fur beneath, clawed feet below, 0.99g, 0° (SL 55-10, rev. plate coin; SCBI 69, 596 this coin; T&S pp. 477-81; North 114; Spink 807B), light porosity and of brighter silver with deposits in recesses, otherwise almost very fine.
provenance
K Faber, May 2006
Estimate: £300 - £400