It may have been during Æthelberht's reign that the first coins were minted in England since the departure of the Romans: none bear his name, but it is thought likely that the first coins predate the end of the sixth century. These early coins were gold, and probably were the shillings ( in Old English) that are mentioned in Æthelberht's laws.Blackburn & Grierson, Early Medieval Coinage, p. 157. The coins are also known to numismatists as thrymsas."Coinage", M.A.S. Blackburn, in Lapidge, Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England.
It may have been during Æthelberht's reign that the first coins were minted in England since the departure of the Romans: none bear his name, but it is thought likely that the first coins predate the end of the sixth century. These early coins were gold, and probably were the shillings ( in Old English) that are mentioned in Æthelberht's laws.Blackburn & Grierson, Early Medieval Coinage, p. 157. The coins are also known to numismatists as thrymsas."Coinage", M.AS. Blackburn, in Lapidge, Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England.