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, 0.87g (SL 61-30; SCBI 69, 562 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), lightly porous and partially stained, otherwise well-centred, a bolder very fine, very rare.
provenance
Acquired privately from finder, April 2013,
~ Found by L Ross 'between Mill Lane and Thatchers Lane', near Cliffe, north of Rochester (Kent) ~
Estimate: £400 - £500