Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series O, type 40, slender figure facing, wearing long pleated tunic, long cross pommée at either side, pellets on shaft of crosses row of pellets either side below elbows, feet right, rev. monster left, looking back, gaping mouth, leg raised behind head, raised curling tail, pellet outline, fur beneath, clawed feet below, 1.05g, 270° (SL 55-10; SCBI 69, 597 this coin; T&S pp. 477-81; North 114; Spink 807B [formerly 811 plate coin]), traces of surface porosity, otherwise in higher relief, lightly toned, very fine, the reverse pleasingly so.
provenance
Acquired privately from finder, April 2006,
~ Found by W Harrison at Boynton (East Yorks) ~,
[EMC 2006.0280]
Estimate: £300 - £400