Series O, type 57 -

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series O, type 57, snub nosed bust, right, long straight hair swept back, within beaded circle breached by neck, cable border, rev. Monster in flight left, looking back with gaping jaws and raised, curled tail, chest hirsute, clawed foot below, bent foreleg, raised to head, 0.90g, 180° (SL 54-10; SCBI 69, 594 this coin; Abramson, 2012b, Fig 1b; T&S pp. 474-5, 377; North -; Spink 807C plate coin).  Very rare.

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 #229. Provenance: M Vosper, March 1999.