Series H, type 49 -

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series H, type 49, Hamwic, small moustached 'Wodan' face with a beaded outline framed in 8 roundels, pellets between, rev. Peacock striding right, rosette below neck, pellet cross between legs, clusters of 2 and 3 pellets beneath feet, 0.92g, 90° (SL 48-815 plate coin; SCBI 69, 371 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).  Very 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 #215. Provenance: J Philpotts, March 2013