'Saroaldo' Group -

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, 'Saroaldo' Group, type 11, disintegrated diademed bust right, pyramidical beaded neck, with elongated beaded collar, cross above, annulet before, rev. legend around cross pommée in beaded, diamond standard with trefoil of pellet in each quadrant, cross above, 1.10g (SL 7-40; SCBI 69, 141 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; North 44; Spink 784 plate coin).

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 #50. Provenance: Acquired privately from finder, October 2003 ~ Found by W Harrison at Wetwang, near Driffield (East Yorkshire) ~ [EMC 2004.0216 = BNJ Coin Register 2003, no. 121].