Series J, type 85 -

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series J, type 85, York, diademed head right, crescent ear, pellet lips, protruding chin and braided hair, rev. outline bird (dove ?) right on cross pommée, unbalanced pellet-inannulet either side, quatrefoil of berries before bird with three tail feathers below, trefoils in lower angles, 1.11g, 270° (SL 18-20; SCBI 69, 383 this coin; T&S pp. 345-53, 293-5; Gannon 36, 48, no. 170, 107, no. 5, 109-12, and Figs. 2.18b, 4.2a; North -; Spink 802 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 #119.  Provenance; S Newson, November 2008 ~ Found 'in same field as York gold shilling', at Kirkburn (East Yorkshire), 2008 ~ [EMC 2009.0055]