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Sceat Series BIII Var

Sceat (Series BIII Var) - obverseSceat (Series BIII Var) - reverse

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Features

Issuer Early Anglo-Saxon (Kingdoms of British Isles and Frisia)
Type Standard circulation coins
Years 680-710
Value 1 Sceat
Currency Sceat
Composition Srebro
Weight 1.09 g
Diameter 11.5 mm
Shape Okrągły (nieregularny)
Technique Młotkowana
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
451284
References Sp# 777a
Standard Catalogue of British Coins (37 volumes).
, SCBI Abra# 76
Tony Abramson; 2018. Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles / Volume 69. The Abramson collection: coins of early Anglo-Saxon England and the North Sea area. Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

(en) Large diademed head right, beading continues to prognasthous chin, slit eye, two pellets form lips, 2 annulets before.

Reverse

(en) Bird on Maltese cross, annulets in angles, blundered legend in margin around.

Comments

(en)

Possibly imitative of Series BIII. Abramson Sceatta List: 16-90. Early Anglo-Saxon period (c.600-c.775), Sceatta coinage (c.675-c.760), Primary phase issues (c.680-c.710).

For further detail on these and other early Anglo-Saxon English coins, please see:
Thrymsas and Sceattas in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Vols I-III by D.M. Metcalf.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (680-710) 

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