Watch List notes:

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series O, type 38, Mint in East Kent, bust right, snub nose descending from hairline, swept back hair or perhaps a helmet with nasal, pincer shoulder (an ornament ?) breaking beaded border, rev. small bird flying right, in stitched double torc, enclosing boss-headed snake anticlockwise, vestigial outer blundered legend or cable border, 1.20g, 190° (SL 58-20, plate coin; SCBI 69, 586 this coin; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 19c; T&S pp. 470-72, 373-75; North 95; Spink 807), a trace of surface porosity, otherwise handsome 'gunmetal' tone, a charming portrait, a really good very fine, extremely rare.
provenance
Acquired privately from finder, September 2002,
~ Found by P Spencer, 'on a Roman road' near Upper Poppleton, York, early 2002 ~


Estimate: £250 - £350