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Sceat Series Q, variety IE
| Issuer | Early Anglo-Saxon (Kingdoms of British Isles and Frisia) |
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| Year | 710-760 |
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| Currency | Sceat |
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| Obverse description | Stylized facing head rendered in the debased Anglo-Saxon manner, dominated by a large prominent eye set within a triangular nose-and-brow framework. The face is flanked by flowing hair strands depicted as curved relief lines descending to either side. A angular, geometric chin and neck area is ornamented with a saltire-like cross motif with pellets at its terminals. Multiple pellets are scattered throughout the field, and a beaded border encircles the entire design, characteristic of the Series Q sceat coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (710-760) |
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Series Q is among the more poorly understood sceat groups, likely produced somewhere in the southern English kingdoms during the first half of the eighth century, though a definitive mint attribution remains elusive. Variety IE sits within a cluster of related types distinguished primarily through die-study work, most systematically organized by D.M. Metcalf. The series as a whole circulated during a period when England had no unified monetary authority — coin production was fragmented across ecclesiastical and secular workshops operating with considerable independence.