"Series E", type 89, SEDE -

Anglo-Saxon England, Primary Series (680-710), Sceat, "Series E", type 89, SEDE (or AESE [?]) divided by four saltire pommées, central cross pommée, rev. serpent coiled anticlockwise, open mouth with curl before, protecting central cross pommée, quills radiating to edge, 1.31g, 180° (SL 93-20; cf. SCBI 69, 300; T&S pp. 246, 263; JMP pp. 222-23).

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 #66.  Very rare.  Provenance: W Boyd, January 2019 ~ Found 'two miles' from Canterbury (Kent)  [EMC 2019.0031].