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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;NewStyleKing, post: 6156121, member: 106483&quot;]The purse contained thirty-seven gold <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shillings" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shillings" rel="nofollow">shillings</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_English_penny_(c._600-1066)#The_earliest_gold_coinage:_thrymsas" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_English_penny_(c._600-1066)#The_earliest_gold_coinage:_thrymsas" rel="nofollow">tremisses</a>, each originating from a different Frankish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint_(coin)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint_(coin)" rel="nofollow">mint</a>. They were deliberately collected. There were also three blank coins and two small <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingot" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingot" rel="nofollow">ingots</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruce-Mitford1975578%E2%80%93677-94" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBruce-Mitford1975578%E2%80%93677-94" rel="nofollow">[87]</a> This has prompted various explanations: possibly like the Roman <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obolus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obolus" rel="nofollow">obolus</a></i> they may have been left to pay the forty ghostly oarsmen in the afterworld or were a funeral tribute, or an expression of allegiance.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo#cite_note-95" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo#cite_note-95" rel="nofollow">[88]</a> They provide the primary evidence for the date of the burial, which was debatably in the third decade of the 7th century.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEvans198688%E2%80%9389-96" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEvans198688%E2%80%9389-96" rel="nofollow">[89]</a>-WIKIPEDIA</p><p><br /></p><p>Someone might find the coin pictures and attributions,please!</p><p><br /></p><p>The film is excellent and I only knew of Basil Brown and the landowner as the discoverers when I read about the Sutton Hoo burials in the late 60&#039;s-early 70&#039;s[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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