Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Phase (680-710), Sceat, Series F variety b, type 24b, heavy-jowled bust right, wearing helmet with neck guard, enclosing 'I', exaggerated features, cross pattée behind, blundered legend in square lettering, rev. cross pattée on steps, cross pattée above, annulets at ends of cross limbs, Ts & Is between, blundered legend in square lettering, 1.05g, 180° (SL 106-30; SCBI 69, 105 this coin; Spink 781), traces of porosity and largely centred, otherwise good very fine.
provenance
Acquired privately from finder, December 2006,
~ Found by R Parkes at Maidstone (Kent), 2004 ~,
[EMC 2004.0062]
Estimate: £200 - £250