Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series O, type 40, slender figure facing, trefoil face, rounded shoulders with arms disconnected from body, wearing long plain tunic, long cross pommée at either side, pellets on shaft of crosses and in field, feet right, rev. monster in flight left, looking back, gaping jaws, leg raised behind head, raised tail, pellets outline, fur beneath, clawed foot below, 0.96g, 0° (SL 55-10, SCBI 69, 601 this coin; T&S pp. 477-81; North 114; Spink 807B), trace porosity, otherwise largely centred, a bolder very fine.
provenance
Bruun-Rasmussen 764, 11 December 2006, lot 5401
Estimate: £350 - £450