Continental Sceatta; Series E, Variety L mule. 1.01g. (N. 49, S. 790K, Abramson 87/40). REF: 4LN8ZL.
Obverse: Plumed bird facing right, pellet-in-circle below right. Reverse: Pellet in circle centre surrounded by four pairs of pellets and four pellet crosses in pellet square.
Good metal. Pleasing bird on the obverse. Struck on an irregular flan, reverse off-centre. Very fine or better.
Provenance:
Patrick Finn, List 15, no. 45 (1999).
This coin is a rare series E/G mule, for which just six specimens are currently known. See Wybrand OP den Velde in Tony Abramson, ‘Sceatta List’, page 186: “Recently I acquired a plumed bird sceat, with a variety G reverse. Together with your coin this brings the total number of plumed bird/G mules to six. Two in the Cimiez hoard, one from the Lockett collection, and P. Finn list 15”.
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