"We see Roman gold coins being repurposed as pendants ... Despite being pagans at the time, the Anglo-Saxons showed a keen interest in Roman imagery, including Christian symbols such as the ...

Gold jewellery, silver ingots and hundreds of coins were buried ... the duo put the multi-million-pound Anglo-Saxon treasure into a carrier bag and returned to Wales, where they shared pictures of ...

In the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf the warrior Sigemund ... whose later imperial currency had been based on the solidus, a solid gold coin. Imperial gold had fallen to the Germanic tribes as plunder ...