Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series M, variety F, type 45, sinuous animal right, looking up or back, curled tail above, curled tongue before, claws below, pellets in field, rev. vine coiled anticlockwise from centre around central cluster of pellets, annulet above, pellets in field, 0.94g (SL 61-30 plate coin; SCBI 69, 561 this coin; T&S pp. 453-8, 363-7; Gannon 155, 164, and Figs. 4.65, 5.8; MEC 8 Series M; North 143; Spink 805), slight edge chip, otherwise lightly porous and the reverse a really bolder very fine, and very rare.
provenance
S Harmer, September 2008,
~ Found near Wye, Ashford (Kent), August 2008 ~,
[EMC 2009.0064]
Estimate: £400 - £500