New Variety 1-16. As 1-15 but reverse inscription rotated so that the annulet cross is above and tufa below.

Courtesy CNG 943607

New variety 1-25.

A/INC around bust. Three annulets above runic name in centre of reverse. Cross pattée left.

EMC 2020.0371, found Hoath, Canterbury, 2020.

Image courtesy EMC.

New variety 1-33, type IIA variant.

ITIIC before bust. Three annulets above runic name in centre of reverse. Tufa left.

EMC 1001.0219, found by 1958.

Image courtesy EMC.

New Variety 1-35, courtesy of Mike Vosper - January 2021:

"Base Gold Thrymsa - Sceat transitional, Type Ib-IIa? / IIa., Mint in Kent, ca.670-690 AD.
12mm - 1.17g"

"Bust right, the breast is as of type Ib - lines and two annulets depicting arms etc., not a row of annulets across arms and neck as Ty.IIa is. The hair has a forward bent wreath (to resembling a helmet) ending in some annulets - these annulets are only present on the helmeted Ib. It would appear that the die cutter has designed the hair to liken a helmet! In front of the bust is CIIZIO (for CRISPVS blundered), this legend only occurred on Type Ib and not IIa (IIa is TIIC, TIC or AVG). / Type IIa = PADA (in Runic), with three pellets above, in a beaded circle. Tufa on left, and mZCOTIoΛTm (C retrograde).

See S76A for the near obverse, S 769 for both sides - note the busts!
Metcalf, see Vol., 1, page 73, Pa Ib obverse and Pa IIa obverse and reverse.

It would appear that the obverse of our coin is a transition from a helmeted bust to a diademed bust, I know of no other examples and must be EXCESSIVELY-RARE"

New variety 2-20, Vanamundus with annulet before mouth. Reverse: central cross pattée, cross pattée above, legend in margin.

EMC 20018.0105. Hatfield Heath, Essex, by April 2017.

Image courtesy EMC.

New variety 2-50, a mule of a Vanimundus VAI obverse with a Pada PaIIA reverse. First recorded in BNJ's Coin Register 2007, no. 69.

Obv: [ ]TM[ ]VS, helmeted bust right with staff on shoulder.

Rev: MISICTOT[ ]ATM (C reversed, A unbarred) around runic Pada. Baldwin Auction 30, 7-8 May 2002, lot 554.

3-60, a die duplicate of this specimen. [Note Spink managed to misorientate the reverse of my coin, despite my persistence in trying to get them to correct this and many other errors in image orientation. They were at least a dozen images they failed to show at all in the online Part III & IV auctions.]

This new find is a die duplicate of my coin and is extremely rare. The fact that this was a reliable detector find in a known location evinces the credibility of this type as being part of the corpus of sceats, derivative though it is.

Metal detector find mid-August 2022, near Kilham in the Yorkshire Wolds. 1.05g.

Unrecorded variety possibly attributable to Series A, provisionally 3-80, Continental find courtesy of Ype de Jong, December 2020.

Two crosses before bust replace legend, T behind. Rev: degenerate votive standard with crosses and pseudo-characters in margin.

New sub-variety 4-12.

Obverse: regular diademed, runic bust with beaded pyramid neck. Broken A and annulet left, runes right. Annulet in exergue.

Reverse: degenerate votive standard with tufa to left [or TOTII to right], annulet either side of tufa, horns at top corners of beaded square, chevrons to sides.

Image courtesy of Andy Brooks, found Lincolnshire, August 2022.

New Variety 4-15: Horns to upper corners of votive standard but tufa replaced by cross pattée. See also here.

Image courtesy of Wayne Boyd, 1^st Nov 2021.

New Variety 4-25 Series C. Obverse: radiate bust right with C-shaped ear; to left, Λ flanked by annulets; annulet and runic EPA to right. Reverse: standard with central pellet-in-annulet, Ts in upper corners, diagonal lines in lower; cross pommée on each side, beaded diagonals on outer corners. MEC 8 Series RSf; SCBI 69, 686 (same obv. die); cf. North 157; SCBC 813. 12mm, 0.99g, 90°.

Image courtesy of CNG 522, August 2022, lot 710.

Provisional new variety 4-26? Series C. Obverse: radiate bust right with C-shaped ear; Λ and pellet-in-annulet to left; runic EPA to right. Reverse: standard inscribed T T/O/II with two pellets below; at sides, annulet each side connected to standard by line, each flanked by pellets. Metcalf, Runic –; MEC 8 Series RPb; SCBI 69, 657 (same dies); North 157; SCBC 813. 13mm, 1.08g, 180°.

Image courtesy of CNG 522, August 2022, lot 705.

4-30, Series C, a better specimen than in Sceatta List. Ex John Cross, Canterbury Auction Galleries, 3^rd October 2021, lot 577-3. Courtesy JNC.

Variant of 4-50, probably derivative.

Obv: large featured head, right, with gap between diadem and crown, degenerate runes before and double annulet and large chevron behind.

Rev: to each side, a cross pattée eith plain crosses at corners of votive standard.

13mm. Found on the 01/02/2023 near Bishops Cannings,Wiltshire, February 2023.                                                                                                     Image courtesy of Sean Hinksman.

New Variety 4-100: a mule of a series A3 obverse with Series C2 reverse, presumably an 'official' mint error.

Image courtesy of EMC 2021.0407.

Provisional new variety 4-110. Series C. Obverse: radiate bust right with annulet before diadem, C-shaped ear, pyramid neck, lips of two vertical pellets, chevron either side of annulet, left and runes (?) right. Reverse: standard with central annulet, Ts above, straight lines below (hence allocation to Series C), cross on each side, with symbols in margins (no tufa?)

Found near Cambridge, August 2022.

New Variant 6-24.

Letters EO to right of bust.

Image courtesy of Paul Ramsey, November 2022.

New Variety 6-50 VERNVS

Obv: degenerate bust left, cross pommée before.

Rev: degenerate votive standard, lines and pellets around central pellet-in-annulet.

Image courtesy of Ype de Jong 9-10 December 2022, lot Elsen 153. See here.

New Variety 7-35 SAROALDO ex John Cross, Canterbury Auction Galleries, 3^rd October 2021, lot 560-4. Note SA before bust. Courtesy JNC.

Unrecorded variety of Series D type 2c, 8-15.  Obverse legend in Roman lettering rather than runic.

Image courtesy Ype de Jong, April 2021.

8-100: a contemporary, imitative variety of

8-10 seeming to replace the conventional runes with KHK. Found by 1998 on the productive 'South Wessex' site with many other authentic sceats - see specimens in the Gallery of Choice Sceats.

Image courtesy of John Heath, February 2023. Found 'south Wessex' by 1998.

An additional image of 10-20, the sub-variety with the smaller, neater reverse cross on tripod motif (on right in SL). Jaarboek 90, p. 43 and corpus 152-5, so rare.

Image use requested from Stewart Salmon, featured on Facebook group Coins Sceats and Thrymsas 22-11-2022

Improved image 11-120. Series R8. Obverse: radiate bust right with C-shaped ear; to left, Λ flanked by annulets; annulet and runic EA to right. Reverse: standard with central annulet, symmetrical angular symbols in upper corners, diagonal lines in lower; cross pommée on each side, diagonal on outer corners. MEC 8 Series RSb; cf. North 157; SCBC 813A. 11mm, 1.12g, 180°.

Image courtesy of CNG 522, August 2022, lot 709.

New variety 12-55, Series Q/R, type 73 mule.

Obv: Crude radiate bust left, annulets either side, Runic legend ER, before, Λ and pellet in annulet behind, two curved, exergual lines either side of beaded line.

Rev: Quadruped stepping left, foreleg raised, gaping jaws, triple-forked tail raised, pellets in field.

Apparently found near Milton, Cambridgeshire, by October 2022.

Image courtesy of Alex Bliss, January 2023.

A specimen of the extremely rare variety 12-85, recovered from a dealer’s 'junk' tray at the York Fair but copper alloy with no trace of silver - possibly originally silver plated and now worn away.

Obv: Radiate bust with pyramid neck, pointed nose joined to crescent ear, runic legend before epa, Epa outward. Behind, pellet in lozenge.

Rev: Runic aÞili// rad, Æthili/ræd, in two lines either side of base.

A metal-detector find possibly from near Romsey, Hampshire.

Image courtesy of Alex Bliss, January 2023.

New variety, provisionally 12-100.

The 'obverse', a rosette around a central boss, all in a broken square, is reminiscent of the reverse of 11-190.

The 'reverse' is related to the degenerate standards of the later Series R types.

Found on a group dig south of Thirsk, North Yorkshire, 2022. 1.00g.

Images courtesy of Edward Oxborough.

New variety, possibly a mule, temporarily assigned to geometric SL Group 12-110 [cf SL101-30]. Likely East Anglian origins?

"Obverse": cross pommée in beaded square, cross pommée left and right, cross ancrée below. Diagonals to corners of square. Beaded border.

"Reverse": degenerate votive standard. Angular symbols around central pellet-in-annulet in beaded square. Cross pommée to each side, diagonals to lower corners of square.

Original image courtesy of Fraser Bailey, July 2022. Found nr. Bury St Edmunds, 0.8g, 12mm.

Replacement image courtesy of Alex Bliss and Noonans, auction 15th November 2022, lot 25.

An improved image of 13-133.

Image courtesy of Ype de Jong, Oct 2022.

13-157 NOTICE OF WITHDRAWAL

Demian J. Morrisroe writes: Specimen 13-157 on page 79 is one of the small medieval coins of Flanders known as a petit denier or "maille." I don't own a copy myself, but the reference for these is Joseph Gyssens' 'Les petits deniers de Flandre des XIIe et XIIIe siècles' (Bruxelles, 1971). They were minted between the mid-12th century and the end of the 13th. Many cities in Flanders minted their own versions, typically around 10 or 11mm, and usually uninscribed.

The coin in question was minted in Ghent during Gyssens' fourth phase of the coinage, dating between 1253 and 1300 A.D.  Absent a copy of Gyssens' book, the below link contains a free Google e-book of the 2007 Kunker auction catalogue of the G. W. de Wit collection.  Page 397 introduces the petits deniers and the phases of the coinage, and page 400 features several exemplars of the coin in question:

https://books.google.com/books?id=ShOnykzju1QC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

The image shown here is from Victor Louis Marie Gaillard's 'Les monnaies des comtes de Flandre,' published in 1852, and is thus past copyright.  Please note that the fleur-de-lys behind the bust is replaced with a cruciform quartet of pellets on many issues, as in the example published in Sceatta List ed III.

Interesting sub-variety of Series B, 16-25. Note the braided hair on the bust is reminiscent of the portraits on the transitional shillings of Pada, 1-10 to 1-20.

Images courtesy of Dale Gowing.

Variety 19-25, improved images. Courtesy of PAS YorYm-C7-O4B8 and TimeLine 28 Feb 2021.

A choice reverse of 20-10.

Image courtesy of Alex Larbey, Dec 2022.

A striking portrait on this extremely fine specimen of 21-30.

Image use requested from Stewart Salmon, featured on Facebook group Coins Sceats and Thrymsas 22-11-2022

Contemporary, imitative variety of Series G, SL21-75.  Pellet cross either side of crude bust, right, with linear features. Drapery replaced by square.

Image courtesy of Ype de Jong, May 2021.

New Variety 32-25. Bust left with wreath-ties, of typical London style and fabric. Rosette before.

Reverse: standard bearer. Cross pommée to lower left. Surfaces silver enriched.

EMC 2022.0123. Found near Ancaster early November 2021.

Thanks to Pat Broomfield for correcting my provisional attribution.

New Variety 33-77.

Obv: Diademed, draped bust right, knotted wreath-ties, long cross pommée, (on base?) before. Pellets on shaft of cross. Drapery I.

Rev: Cowled, square-shouldered, figure, facing, head right, wearing pleated tunic, standing in crescent boat holding long cross pommée, right, and forward-looking bird of prey, left.

Image courtesy of Nick Carter and Noonans, auction 1st February 2023, part lot 482.

34-20. Nick Carter pointed out that the specimen illustrated at 34-20 in Sceatta List is actually variety 34-30. The example of 34-20 illustrated on the left is EMC 2019.0397.

New Variety 34-25 previously 34-20 but now re-assigned.This coin Spink auction 21060, 30th September 2021, Part III lot 812. SCBI. 483. Standard bearer in hatched tabard, looking right, holding long cross right, floral cross left, standing in crescent boat. Similar to 35-30 but with crescent boat. My thanks to Nick Carter for distinguishing this probably unique variety from 34-20 above.

New Variety 37-35.

Obv: Standard bearer looking right, holding long cross in both hands right, foliate cross left.

Rev: Animal left looking back.

Image courtesy of Noonans auction, 4^th-5^th April 2023.

Improved image, saddleback drapery version of 38-10.

Found Dorset.

Image courtesy of Ian Darke.

New Variety of 38-25,

Image courtesy of Graeme Lee, March 2021.

A excellent example of 39-10.

Found Dorset.

Image courtesy of Ian Darke, Oct 2022.

New Variety 39-35. Similar to 39-30 but with "keyhole" drapery.

Image credit Sean Hagarty, February 2022.

41-10v: one of many die variations of this most alluring type. Ex John Cross, Canterbury Auction Galleries, 3^rd October 2021, lot 531-5. Courtesy JNC.

An excellent specimen of 44-10 the 'Fledgling' type.

Image courtesy of Simon Mote Facebook Nov 2022

45-10v: A more linear pecking bird than on the regular Series U reverse. Ex John Cross, Canterbury Auction Galleries, 3^rd October 2021, lot 560-2. Courtesy JNC.

Exceptional image of 45-50.

Image courtesy of Ron Bude.

Exceptional image of 45-50.

Image courtesy of Ron Bude.

New Variety 45-55: Obverse has elaborate long cross pommée right and unique star-topped staff left. Reverse displays a linear pecking bird with feet closely set and plump berries in field. A superb specimen of a new variety. Found Peterborough area.

Image courtesy Wayne Boyd, 3rd October 2021.

A third, if fragmentary, specimen of 48-10. EMC 2023.0053

Obv: small bird right, in circle of 9 bosses.

Rev: peacock, right.

Found, West Berkshire, 15th January 2023.

For a complete specimen see here.

Image courtesy of Chris Matthews.

New combination, 48-1015.

Obv: 10 bosses around small central face.

Rev: peacock, variety 1a

Image courtesy of John Heath. Found 'south Wessex' by 1998.

Provisional New Variety 52-15, Series N with exceptionally clear facial portrayal on obverse standing figures, who hold a staff either side and a linear cross between.

Image courtesy of Andy Mitchell, Nov 2022.

Exceptional image of obverse of 52-20.

Image courtesy of Ron Bude.

Variant of 52-40 courtesy of Steve Harmer, found Kent 2021. Standard bearers have beaded haloes.

Improved image of 52-40.

Image courtesy of Alex Larbey, Dec 2022.

59-15 a better image from Stewartby part 1 (Anglo-Saxon and Norman)  lot 34. Thanks to  Alex Bliss for reminding me of this!

Exceptional image of obverse of 63-70 with distinctive hair over shoulder.

Image courtesy of Ron Bude.

Improved image of 64-60, courtesy of Artie Gran, who advises: this coin is ex- Lockdale’s 162 (lot 1419), John Cross collection (not John N Cross), Morton & Eden 83-84 (lot 900), EMC 1986.0097, found Great Bircham, Norfolk in the 1970s.

Exceptional image of 64-110.

Image courtesy of Ron Bude.

Improved image of 66-40.

Series QL is base with shallow execution. It is difficult to find in decent condition.

Weight 0.95g, 11.3mm maximum diameter.

Found near Brandon, Suffolk.

Image courtesy Hayley Watson, Dec '22.

New Variety 67-55, R-Q mule.

Obv: degenerate runic bust left EPA before, chevron and annulets behind.

Rev: quadruped trotting left, triple-forked tail raised, foreleg bent.

Found near Milton, Cambs.

Image courtesy of Alex Bliss, January 2023.

New Variety 67-60, a mule of 65-10 reverse with a votive standard reverse.

Obverse: sea-bird or eagle left, triquetra above, wing over back, pellets in field.

Reverse: degenerate votive standard, cross pommée left.

Image courtesy Ray Duncan, found near Bury St Edmunds, August 2022, 0.97g.

Improved image of 70-130, a mule of classes D and E.

Found 2020, near Pocklington, East Yorkshire. 1.01g.

Only one specimen previously recorded - Booth BAR128, 1984.

Image courtesy of Eddie Bethwaite, February 2023

72-40 better illustration than in Sceatta List ed. 3. Ex John Cross, Canterbury Auctions Galleries, 3^rd October 2021, lot 560-1. Courtesy JNC.

New Variety 73-18 Ælfwald. A far better coin than 73-15 in SL ed. 3. The reverse beast is modelled in this example. Ex John Cross, Canterbury Auctions Galleries, 3^rd October 2021, lot 549-3. Courtesy JNC.

New Variety 73-65, Aelfwald.

Obv: ALEVALDVS (S reversed) around central cross pattée.

Rev: fantastic beast right, cross pattée beneatth, rosette above. Class E.

Image courtesy of Eddie Bethwaite, February 2023.

New variety 73-80 courtesy of George Walbert. Legend retrograde, fantastic beast left.

Temporary image of New Variety, 74-14.

Obv:EðTBREhTVГ round cross pattée.

Rev: ECGBERhT. Linear figure, straight legs, holding long cross left, crozier right.

Image courtesy of Mark Cummins Feb 2023.

New Variety 75-15: Ecgberht under Alchred. King's name appears somewhat different from 75-10, ending in "DL". Ex John Cross, Canterbury Auctions Galleries, 3^rd October 2021, lot 582-1. Also see EMC 2022-0105.

Courtesy JNC.

80-05: See EMC 2020.0417. See ‘A vital clue in establishing Northumbrian chronology for early pennies’

This was the final coin to be added to my collection before disposal.

Clearer images are now provided, courtesy of Ron Bude.

New Variety 80-55

Aethelred by the moneyer ceolbald but blundered to read CELBAOLD. Thanks to Alex Bliss for drawing this to my attention (19/10/2021) and giving image use permission. See Alex's note on the BNS blog.

80-140 - a second variety of Ceolbald with an anomolus reverse legend, recorded on the Portable Antiquities database. Attributed to CEOLBALD by Artie Gran in his BNS Blog contribution of 6^th August 2019: 'Ceolbald of Northumbria: a new look at an old moneyer'.

New variety 82-35 courtesy of Quoin Scions June 2021. Found Old Malton.

New Variety 82-60 Aethelred by Tidwulf.

+EDELDRE around cross pattée.

R: +TIDVVCF, cenrtral boss in beaded inner circle.

Beaded borders.

Image courtesy of Nick Carter, January 2022.

New Variety 82-70, as above but central rosette on obverse, cenrtral cross pattée in beaded inner circle on reverse.

Courtesy Wayne Boyd, March 2022.

New variety 83-40 courtesy of Timothy Scotney.

84-10 better illustration than in Sceatta List ed. 3. Ex John Cross, Canterbury Auctions Galleries, 3^rd October 2021, lot 560-5. Courtesy JNC.

New Variety 86.5-45 Eanbald styca by Eadwine. Ex John Cross, Canterbury Auctions Galleries, 3^rd October 2021, lot 531-9. Courtesy JNC

New Variety 86.5-77: Æthelweard for Archbishop Eanbald II. Cruciform central motifs differ from Sceatta List ed. III specimen. Ex John Cross, Canterbury Auctions Galleries, 3^rd October 2021, lot 540-7.

Courtesy JNC

New Variety 86.5-130 [02-A] tertiary sceat. 
Joint issue of Eanred and Archbishop Eanbald II. DNW Nov 2021. Unrecorded. Read more in the BNS blog. A historical significant find, auctioned by DNW December 1-2, 2021. Image courtesy of DNW

New Variety 87-50, plumed bird obverse combined with a variety E reverse. For a discussion of this specimen see here.

Image courtesy of Ype de Jong, October 2022.

New Variety 87-60, mule of a plumed bird obverse combined with a variety E reverse. Both dies unrecorded. For a discussion of this specimen see here.

Image courtesy of Ype de Jong, October 2022.

New Variety 92-15 Aethiliraed in runes but retrograde.

Ex John N Cross, Canterbury Auctions lot 535, 9.

Images courtesy of Christine Hetherington, February 2022.

In March 2022, a second specimen, found in Hertsfordshire, was reported by Ian Turner.

New variant of 93-40, SEDE

Obverse: letters separated by pellets rather than pellet-in-annulets.

Reverse: crude 'porcupine', same die as De Wit specimen (331).

Image courtesy of Tom Seabrook Jan 2023

New variant of group 94.

Obv: crescent right enclosing XVIO. cf 94-30 but laterally reversal.

Rev: votive standard of  Series E, variety A (secondary).

Cf: Jaarboek 97, 1482.

Image courtesy of Mark Rasmussen,

ref. 36/2, list of December 2022.

97-20. Just another bizarre additon to the Vast Trackless Wastes! I love the elephant trunk!

Image courtesy of DNW 1-2 December 2021 lot 41

Had I treated Series E in as much detail as I have the English coinage, Sceatta List would have been twice as long! I made it very concise and skipped over a lot of the fine detail in Wybrand Op den Velde & Michael Metcalf's superb Jaarboek 96-7 (2009-10). In Sceatta List this variety is dumped in 97-30 a catch-all group. In WOdV&MM it's sub-variety k of the secondary phase, numbers 2649-50, that is, only two specimens were known previously. This is ER.

Image courtsey of Liam Rees, January 2023. Found near Bury St Edmunds. 1.12g.

Variant 98-20, Series E, variety B related. Found near Hook, Hampshire.

See also, Abramson sale, Part IV, Spink 21070, lots 1095, 1148 and 1149. The latter is a better example but among many Spink failed to post to the online auction website.

Courtesy Peter Brown, March 2022.

New variety 102-11. Obverse apperars to be a die duplicate of 102-10: Christ, facing, almond-shaped eyes, bell-shaped hair style curling outward, long moustache and beard forked into W shape. Beaded border enclosed within wire lines.

Reverse is similar to 102-40: long-legged wild boar in running posture right, large claws below, lowered tail with pellet finial rises below body, ears erect. Row of pellets over back, trefoil of pellets before.

Image courtesy of Sean Hagarty, February 2022.

102-15 an improved image.

Image courtesy of DNW auction 8^th-9^th March 2022, lot 51.

Improved image of 104-25, Insular Series X.

Obv: annulets to sides and above.

Rev: beast left, looking back.

Found near Storrington, Sussex.

EMC 2023-0087.

Image courtesy of Richard Lyon and finder Tony Gill, February 2023.

New variety 104-60 courtesy of Timothy Scotney.

Improved image of 106-10, Prou 584.

Obv: +AVDO MONET, Civitas Avtissiodorvm, Auxerre (Yonne), around bust right, diadem perlé.

Rev: +AVTIZIODERO, ornamented cross pattée on step.

Image courtesy of Bibliotheque Nationale de France archive.

Improved image of the extremely rare Fleeing Biped variety 107-10.

Obv: large headed triangular figure lest. Cross pattée before, two behind

Rev: biped fleeing left, looking back, tail raised.

This beautiful specimen validates the variety (and 107-20, 25 & 30) as part of the corpus of sceats, dispelling any lingering doubts.

Images courtesy of Stephen Berta, Saxon Coins Sceats and Thrymsas, Facebook, 18th January 2023.

107-45: The Wim de Wit specimen (S195 in the Kunker catalogue of his collection. Part IV) mentioned below.

Obverse: monster right, looking back.

Reverse: Birds left, looking back an alternate limbs of cross fourchée.

This specimen typifies the outstanding quality of the de Wit collection acquired by the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Improved image of 107-50.

Better than my specimen (Spink 21000, Part I, lot 292) with its rather flattened lower flan.

Obverse: 'flying biped'.

Reverse: birds either side of Maltese cross or cross fourchée. Symbolism uncertain. Anna Gannon just pointed out to me that this is the same type as Fig 4.6 (=de Wit S195) in her book - other than the direction of the monster and birds - see above. Detector find by 2022.

Image courtesy of Eddie Taylor, February 2023.

108-30 Series W.

This is not a new image, but included in SL, SCBI 69, 150, SCBC 787, and Spink auction 21000, part 1, lot 85, but I am reminded of Greg Edmunds wonderful description in the latter:

'possibly depicting the perihelion of Halley's Comet over Europe in AD 684 and further tantalising hints of peripheral vestigial legends.'

Temporary image of New Variety 110-75, triquetra cross type but with pellet cross in reverse triquetra.

Found Isle of Wight.

Image courtesy of Alex Kent, February 2023.

A denier probably attributable to Marseilles. The obverse display a cross atop a letter A with a saltire either side. The reverse is a quilled crescent, left, plain cross laterally below. cf : 108-10.

Image courtesy of Demian J. Morrisroe.

cgb.fr website states:

"If it is possible to recognize an extreme simplification of more traditional types on the obverse, the reverse presents a crossed A. If the crossed A is quite widely represented in the Merovingian coinage, it is very rare in the Anglo-Saxon coinage (note however the W100 coin reproduced by T. Abramson with a crossed A described as a monogram of Marseilles and considered as a denarius “ Anglo-Merovingian” of series W).

Is it a Merovingian strike inspired by a sceat. Need we remind you that sceats circulated widely throughout Gaul? Or is it a seal using a typically Merovingian type of reverse?

Be that as it may, this penny or seal seems to be missing from all publications on the subject."

bmv_733314: https://www.cgbfr.com/anglo-saxons-sceat-au-porc-epic-et-a-la-croisete-ttb,bmv_733314,a.html

A similar specimen offered by cgb.fr has a mirrored obverse and is illustarted below, courtesy of cgb.

Demian Morrisroe, who has this specimen in his cabinet, describes the obverse ‘bust’ as having obvious Merovingian analogues amongst the deniers of Marseille (see MEC I 576-578). Though crude, he continues, it also seems reminiscent of some of the left-facing busts of the Nemfidius deniers of Marseille (551-552), though they all feature tight, pearl-diademed coiffures rather than the sort of spiky, Series E inspired hair as on this coin. The reverse motif, and its ‘cross-surmounted A’ flanked by pellets (singly, or in trefoil or quatrefoil formation), annulets, letters, or (as in this case) crosses, appears on numerous coins attributed by various references to Marseille, Melle, Paris, Poitiers, Rouen, and Tours, and is thus widespread enough that it is unlikely to aid in narrowing its source of emission. Marseille seems the likeliest spot given the available data. This specimen is broad (13mm at its widest point) and its flan is rather thin (perhaps half a millimetre); it is the thinnest example out of approximately 100 sceattas and Merovingian deniers that Demian has personally examined.

cgb.fr specimen with right facing obverse.