An early medieval Anglo-Saxon gold thrymsa (or shilling) coin from c. 650–675 AD.
The thrymsa (Old English: þrymsa) was a gold coin minted in seventh-century Anglo-Saxon England. It originated as a copy of Merovingian tremisses and earlier Roman coins with a high gold content. Continued debasement between the 630s and the 650s reduced the gold content in newly minted coins such that after c. 655 the percentage of gold in a new coin was less than 35%. The thrymsa ceased to be minted after about 675 and was superseded by the silver sceat.
The thrymsa (Old English: þrymsa) was a gold coin minted in seventh-century Anglo-Saxon England. It originated as a copy of Merovingian tremisses and earlier...
two-hundreders". The law code even mentions the weregild for a king, at 30,000 thrymsas, composed of 15,000 for the man, paid to the royal family, and 15,000 for...
Æthelred (last) Legislature Witenagemot Historical era Heptarchy • Established c. 455 • Full integration into crown of Wessex 871 Currency sceat, thrymsa...
Æthelberht's laws. The coins are also known to numismatists as "thrymsas". Thrymsas are known from Eadbald's reign, but few are known that carry his...
unravel. Some of the earliest series use the same designs as the pale gold thrymsas (similar to the continental Latin: tremissis; notionally one-third of a...
and 8th centuries. The word tremissis was borrowed into Old English as thrymsa. In Frankish sources, the tremissis is sometimes called a triens, a term...
once held the coins and jewellery. Of the 97 coins, 73 were Anglo-Saxon thrymsa and 24 were Merovingian or Frankish tremissis. The consensus amongst historians...
these were rare, the most common being gold scillingas (shillings) or thrymsas. Ecgfrith's pennies, also known as sceattas, were thick and cast in moulds...
England] only at Hamwic [Anglo-Saxon Southampton]: finds include gold thrymsas and some 50 sceattas, with contemporary Merovingian coins and a small group...
silver coins, known as sceattas, appeared, replacing the impractical gold thrymsa as a medium of exchange. Exceptionally for the period, Aldfrith's coins...
(link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) Pirie, E J E (2000). Thrymsas, Sceattas and Stycas of Northumbria. Galata Print. p. 69. ISBN 0951667165...
coins during his reign followed its development in Kent, gold shillings or thrymsas produced during the 660–670s, and thereafter, by a debasement linked to...
Society and Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, 1983). Thrymsas and Sceattas in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 3 vols. (Royal Numismatic...
suggest there were 700 coins in the hoard. Pirie, Elizabeth J. E. (2000). Thrymsas, sceattas and stycas of Northumbria : an inventory of finds recorded, to...
CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Pirie, Elizabeth (2000). Thrymsas, Sceattas and Stycas of Northumbria: an Inventory of Finds recorded to...
plates. SP 27.1: D. Michael Metcalf, Thrymsas and Sceattas in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, vol. 1: Introduction, Thrymsas and Primary Sceattas (1993), 182...
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