Series E, variety C, S.790D -

Anglo-Saxon England, Continental Series (695-740), Sceat, Series E, another type of variety C, crescent enclosing three pelleted bars and cross pommée, line of pellets above, rev. central annulet, cross pommée above, opposing offset crescents and chevron to sides, trefoil below bar and beautifully-crafted bird angled over crescent in margin, pellet each side, 0.99g, 270° (SL 96-20 plate coin; SCBI 69, 264 this coin; T&S pp. 222-42; JMP 96-7; Spink 790D).

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 # 329.  Acquired privately from finder, December 2015 ~ Found by R Cook at Hilton (Cambridgeshire).

Note: Variety C is a "dumping ground" for everything that isn't understood - Metcalf's "vast trackless wastes".