Throughout the seventh and eighth centuries, coinage circulating in the British Isles was evolving. There is evidence that Merovingian gold tremisses coins struck in Frankland after 650 as well as Anglo-Saxon gold thrymsas or shillings were in use in what is today Britain.
Beginning about 675 Anglo-Saxon gold thrymsas or shilling coins were increasingly being replaced by larger quantities of silver pennies or sceattas as the main coin used
