The Anglo-Saxon minting of coins started in the early seventh century, and provides some of the most reliable dating information. Mixed character inscriptions are common, and include the names of moneyers, and even kings, written in a combination of roman letters and runes (Blackburn 144, 158); the name of an East Anglian king on one coin may be transcribed as: “bEOnnarEX,” where minuscules represent runes and capitals represent roman characters (ibid. 170). There was probably some regional variation in the pattern of mixed character inscriptions. Anglo-Saxon coins minted in East Anglia and Kent during the seventh and eighth centuries frequently combine runes and Roman characters, whereas those minted in Northumbria do not (Elliott 52, Fell “Three Script”