Watch List notes:

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Phase (680-710), Sceat, Series W, type 54, facing standing three-quarter length figure looking right, long wispy hair and jutting beard, legs visible, holding long cross pommée either side in skeletal arms and fingers, seems to be wearing mailcoat (lorica hamata), rev. cross crosslet pommée on saltire cross, central pellet, 1.05g (SL 108-20; SCBI 69, 147 this coin), split across flan, otherwise handsomely struck up, a marvellously bold very fine, rare, especially in this condition.
provenance
DNW 78, June 2008, lot 242 [via J Philpotts, July 2008],
~ Found by C Chandler, near Amberley Chichester (West Sussex), December 2003 ~,
[EMC 2009.0033]


Estimate: £500 - £600