Series K, type 42, var. c. -

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series K, type 42, variety c, diademed and draped, bust right, smooth folds, wreath knot behind, cross pommée in palm before, rev. animal left looking back and upwards, rounding angled bush with buds and berries, trefoil tail straight over back, clawed feet below, 0.88g, 0° (Abramson, 2012a, Fig 18; 2012b, Fig 1a; SCBI 69, 442 this coin; Gannon 58-9, 67, 71, 72, 77, 131, 132-4, 139, 185, no. 31, and Figs. 2.38, 2.51b, 2.63, 2.74, 4.37a; North 101; MEC 8 Series Kc; North 101; Spink 803A).  Extremely rare.

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 #194. Provenance: Spink, 31 January 2005 SNC, Vol. CXII, August 2004, HS1651.