'Saroaldo' Group -

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, 'Saroaldo' Group, type 11, disintegrated bust right with diadem low on forehead, saltire cross before, eye and nose in square, pellet lips, annulet before, crescent ear, ladder collar, rev. FIT | VR in beaded standard, central pellet, recumbent S above, tufa left enclosing two pellets, 1.19g, 90° (SL 7-20; SCBI 69, 137 this coin; T&S pp. 147-51, 151- 4; Gannon 49, 128, 172, no. 114, 174, 177, no. 142 and 143, 184; no. 22, 185, and Fig. 4.31; Spink 784).

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 #48. Provenance:  TimeLines, 16 December 2010, lot 107 ~ Reportedly found in Cambridgeshire ~ [EMC 2012.0030 = BNJ Coin Register 2012, no. 70]