Coins, Historical Medals and Antiquities

Early Anglo-Saxon Period, Sceatta, Secondary series K, type 42, draped bust right, hair knotted behind, holding flower, rev. beast bounding right, head reverted, branch with berries behind, 1.08g/3h (SCBI Abramson 437, this coin; Abramson 41.10; N 101; S 803A). Slightly off-centre, about very fine, scarce £400-£500

Found near Newark, Nottinghamshire, 2005 (EMC 2008.0340); T. Abramson Collection, Part III, Spink Auction, 30 September 2021, lot 848