Series H, type 49 -

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series H, type 49, Hamwic, small moustached 'Wodan' head with beaded outline framed in 7 roundels, pellets between, cross pommée below, rev. Peacock striding right, roundel above and below, pellets in field, 0.88g, 180° (SL 48-720 plate coin; SCBI 69, 362 this coin; T&S pp. 321-36, 285-8; Gannon 28, 36, 113, 120, 123, 180, 190, no. 74, and Figs. 2.6, 4.19; North 108, Spink 801A).

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 #213. Provenance: J Philpotts, June 2011 ~ Reportedly found in Lincolnshire.