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Ashmolean Museum inventory no. HCR4915. Gold. c.640. Gold thrymsas. Originally the hoard consisted of 101 coins. Modelled on Merovingian coinage; possibly the earliest English shillings and certainly the most important evidence for early Anglo-Saxon coinage. Discovered in 1828 in Crondall, Hampshire.