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Sceat 'Vanimundus', Type B
| Issuer | Early Anglo-Saxon |
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| Year | 675-685 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Crude laureate bust facing right, depicted holding a sceptre before the chest, rendered in a debased, stylised Anglo-Saxon manner. A blundered or partially legible Latin legend surrounds the effigy within the coin's irregular flan. The portrait, though influenced by late Roman imperial prototypes, exhibits the characteristically simplified, angular draftsmanship typical of the primary sceat series. The field surrounding the bust is plain, with the inscription occupying the outer zone. |
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| Reverse description | A plain cross pattée or cross potent displayed at the centre of a beaded inner circle, itself enclosed within a wreath or beaded border, all set within an outer zone of blundered and largely illegible Latin legend. The overall design is well-centred on the irregular flan and reflects the standard reverse type associated with this sceat series. The beaded border and cross motif derive ultimately from late antique ecclesiastical and imperial iconographic traditions, reinterpreted in a simplified Anglo-Saxon idiom. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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