Coins, Historical Medals and Antiquities

Early Anglo-Saxon Period, Sceatta, Primary series BX, type 26, diademed and draped bust right within beaded circle, pseudo-legend around, rev. bird on stepped cross, flanked by annulets, pseudo-legend around, 0.99g/9h (SCBI Abramson 42, this coin; Abramson 15.10; N 124; S 776). Lightly cleaned and now toning, very fine, scarce £300-£360

Reportedly found near Brentwood, Essex; T. Abramson Collection, Part III, Spink Auction, 30 September 2021, lot 707 [from L. Chaplin 2010]