Series BZ, type 29b -

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, Series BZ, type 29b, haloed outline head with cruciform features, blundered legend .VV++.++O around, rev. bird right atop plain cross, large annulet before, beaded circle with blundered legend, 1.10g, 0° (SL 17-10; SCBI 69, 111 this coin; T&S pp. 133- 7, 138-9; North 131; Spink 778).

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 #61. Provenance: Rudd FPL 34, July 1998 ~ Found near Norwich (Norfolk), 1997.  For further discussion, see A R J Hutcheson (2009, UEA) ‘The Origins of East Anglian Towns: Coin Loss in the Landscape, AD 470-939’, pp. 119.