Thrymsa 'Wuneetton' type

Thrymsas occupy the earliest stratum of Anglo-Saxon coinage, derived directly from Merovingian tremissis prototypes flooding into England through Kentish and East Anglian trade networks in the early seventh century. The 'Wuneetton' type takes its name from a runic inscription whose reading and meaning remain disputed — it may denote a moneyer, a place, or something else entirely, and no scholarly consensus has held for long. These were prestige objects as much as coins, circulating among an elite that measured wealth in cattle and land rather than pocket change.