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LOT 2215

Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series L, Type 18 - Man and Hawk AR Sceatta 710-760 A.D.

Obv: profile bust right with cross before. Rev: standing figure in crescent boat holding cross and hawk. Near very fine.(0.76 grams.). [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, UK, recorded with Early Medieval Corpus, reference EMC 2018.0021.

Published

See Early Medieval Corpus, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, reference EMC 2018.0021 (this coin).

Literature

S.804F. M. 331-333.

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LOT 2215

Anglo-Saxon Coins - Secondary Phase - Series L, Type 18 - Man and Hawk AR Sceatta

Sold for (Inc. bp): £98

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