Coins and Historical Medals

Early Anglo-Saxon Period, Sceatta, Secondary series J [York], type 37, two heads vis-à-vis, each with double-banded diadem, cross-and-trident ornament between them, rev. whorl of four birds in linear style around central cross, double pelleted border both sides, 1.02g (SCBI Abramson 386; Abramson 19-30; N 135; S 802A). Struck a little off-centre, otherwise good very fine, dark patina £300-£400