Series V, type 7 -

Anglo-Saxon England, Secondary Series (710-760), Sceat, Series V, type 7, wolf with long limbs and tail right, looking down and back to suckling twins, row of droplets between twins, rev. songbird with back turned, beak open, some crosshatching on left wing, delicately poised astride two stalks, pecking berries right, 1.20g, 90° (SL 62-10 plate coin; Abramson, 2012a, Fig 32; 2012b, Fig 7; SCBI 69, 801 this coin; T&S pp. 570-5, 453; Gannon 119, 139, no. 225, 144-5, 185, Figs. 4.18a, 4.53; MEC 8 Series V; North 120; Spink 817 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 #247. Provenance: T Owen, June 1998