Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Animal mask, facing feline or fox face, body left, annulet between ears, two pellet-in-annulets right, rev. facing figure, head right, facing, wearing cynehelm and cross-hatched tunic, standing in crescent boat (?) holding bird of prey, right, long cross pommée left, 0.87g, 180° (SL 112-30; SCBI 69, 820 this coin; Spink 829 plate coin), small darkly toned flan, about very fine with traces of porosity, extremely rare.
provenance
J Philpotts, July 2007,
~ Found at Didcot (Oxon) ~,
[EMC 2008.0076 = BNJ Coin Register 2008, no.180)
Estimate: £400 - £500