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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roerbakmix, post: 4725535, member: 100731&quot;][USER=113686]@Egry[/USER], that&#039;s a lovely Series E &#039;porpcupine&#039; sceatta. Though I don&#039;t have my literature with me at this moment, I am fairly sure that it&#039;s a Series E, variety G.</p><p><br /></p><p>I played around a bit to rotate the coin to the right position (that is, we obviously have no idea, but this is the convention).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1157455[/ATTACH]</p><p>On the obverse, you see a &#039;porcupine&#039;. Obviously, it&#039;s not a porcupine because these do not live in the area where this coin (Frisia, current the Netherlands, near the coastal region) was minted (between 700-720 AD). But to avoid unfounded speculations, the late Prof. Metcalf (I believe) coined the term porcupine. The spikes are not attached to the body (they usually aren&#039;t) and end in dots (as usual). The beak (the triangle attached to the spine) is attached with <b>both</b> arms, which is not the case in the very similar variety E (which is probably minted a bit later).</p><p>At the sharp end of the beak, there are three pellets. Below the beak, there is a standard with a roman X (cross-pommee).</p><p><br /></p><p>On the reverse, we see the typical standard with a central pellet-within-annulet, flanked by four lines ending in a dot, all within a dotted border.</p><p>On the outside are the largely off-centered runic (?) legends or, as often, garbled ineligible legends.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is in a nice state of preservation! It should weigh approx. 1.1-1.2 grams, and the diameter should be around 11-13 mm.</p><p><br /></p><p>* EDIT:</p><p>It&#039;s indeed a series E variety G, of which there are four varieties (yours is G1):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1157462[/ATTACH]</p><p>Metcal and Opdenvelde grouped the variety G (together with the plumed bird, the VICO and variety D) as primary phase sceatta&#039;s. There are three phases: primary, secondary and tertiary - with the date of the primary phase as per convention at c. 680-720. So a bit earlier than mentioned above.</p><p><a href="https://jaarboekvoormuntenpenningkunde.nl/jaarboek/2009/2009a.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://jaarboekvoormuntenpenningkunde.nl/jaarboek/2009/2009a.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://jaarboekvoormuntenpenningkunde.nl/jaarboek/2009/2009a.pdf</a> (var G from page 28 and further)</p><p><br /></p><p>if you want, you can try to find a die match:</p><p><a href="https://jaarboekvoormuntenpenningkunde.nl/jaarboek/2010/2010a.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://jaarboekvoormuntenpenningkunde.nl/jaarboek/2010/2010a.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://jaarboekvoormuntenpenningkunde.nl/jaarboek/2010/2010a.pdf</a> </p><p>page 418 and further[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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