ABSTRACT
After the completion of the Historia Ecclesiastica in 731, there is a change in the nature of the texts that provide historians with their information about Anglo-Saxon England. Hoards are vitally important for establishing the relative chronology of variant coin types; single finds, on the other hand, provide evidence for the maximum geographical range of coin use, as well as chronological variations in that range. Until continental finds of coins can be reported in a manner similar to that developed in Britain, some aspects of the study of the circulation of coinage in early medieval Europe will remain closed. It also pursues the evidence beyond the boundaries set in the earlier work, to consider the evidence for the continuity of Frankish interests in Anglo-Saxon England in the ninth century during the reigns of Charlemagne's son, Louis the Pious and his grandson, Charles the Bald.
