Series R5, 'Rigold' type R1X/R1b -

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series R5, 'Rigold' type R1X/R1b, Spi, radiate bust of crude style right, crescent ear, spi before, and cross pommée behind, pellets in field, beaded pyramid neck rests on two curved beaded exergual lines, rev. beaded degenerate standard enclosing symmetrical angular symbols, pellets and central annulet, tufa containing trefoil of pellets, horns at upper corners, diagonals at lower, unbarred cross pommée to sides and below, 0.80g, 90° (SL 11-70; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 11al; SCBI 69, 670 = Timms, 2020, R5, no. 44, this coin; T&S pp. 511-3, 403-6; Metcalf no. 102; Gannon 24, 43-5, 43, nos. 144, 45; no. 151, 55, 56, 60, 160, no. 30, 168, no. 85, 172, 174, 175-6, 191, and Figs. 2.30, 2.31, 2.46, 2.47, 5.5e, 5.19c; North 153; Spink 813).

Images and selected text reproduced by kind permission of Spink and Son Ltd, London, auction 21000, The Tony Abramson Collection of Dark Age Coinage - Part I, March 18th 2021, lot #91. ex M Vosper, January 1999.