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Thrymsa 'London-derived' type
| Issuer | Early Anglo-Saxon |
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| Year | 620-645 |
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| Value | 1 Thrymsa |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (620-645) |
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Thrymsas occupy the earliest phase of Anglo-Saxon coin production, modeled directly on late Roman and Frankish gold tremisses circulating in seventh-century England. The 'London-derived' classification, established by Metcalf, groups a series of issues sharing design ancestry traceable to Roman prototypes that entered England through trade and tribute rather than native minting tradition. By the time these pieces were struck, the original Latin legends had degraded into meaningless sequences of letters — the die-cutters were copying forms they could not read.
The weight standard reflects a gradual debasement already underway across the Channel, where Merovingian gold coinage was thinning through the same decades.