Watch List notes:

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series QIH, half-length diademed, draped figure, wreath ties behind, angular features, arm reaching across (to hold long cross pommée before), rev. quadruped left, looking back, gaping jaws, erect ear, crest joins tail entwining legs, pellets in field, 0.80g, 0° (SL 63-90; SCBI 69, 624 this coin; T&S pp. 488-95, 382-5; Gannon 28-9, 39, 53, 65, 87, 101, no. 159, 148-50, 175, 191-2, and Figs. 2.7b, 2.44; MEC 8 Series Qa; North –; Spink 808D), struck with a severely broken obverse die, somewhat waterworn, otherwise lightly toned, a really bold fine.
provenance
Acquired privately from finder, August 2011
~ Found by W Gemmell at Willoughby (Lincs) ~



Estimate: £250 - £350