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, fish in beak, stitched double torc, enclosing boss-headed snake anticlockwise, vestigial outer blundered legend or cable border, torc anticlockwise, 1.00g, 270° (SL 58-20; SCBI 69, 585 this coin; North 95; Spink 807 plate coin), darker cabinet tone with traces of rust, otherwise good very fine and very rare.
provenance
A Lowton, March 2001


Estimate: £500 - £600