Anglo-Saxon, Crondall period, c.620-c.645, Thrymsas, 1.29g, Witmen 'hybrid' type, pearled and diademed bust right, trident with bifurcated base before rev. w:itm[...] around central cross with three terminals fourchÈe and one potent (Metcalf vol.1, 1-3, Pl. I, Nos 1-2; Sutherland type IV.ii, 58/9 (obverse 1a) / unlisted literate reverse die; c.f. SCBI 63 BM, No.11 prototype; N.25; S.753), reverse off-struck and with some light scuffing, otherwise as struck considering the state of the dilapidated obverse die, good very fine and excessively rare, this the only example of the recut Witmen 'prototype' die in private hands, the other three in the Ashmolean 'Crondall' collection, no example in the British Museum.