Thirty-seven coins, three blanks and two ingots. An interesting hypothesis is that 40 coins (37 coins +3 coins) are the wages of the rower to sail the boat to the destination in the afterlife, while two ingots are the wages of the helmsman.
Dating the coins around 625 makes scholars think that the king of East Anglia is Radewald, who died in 624 and 625 respectively. Bede pointed out in his History of the Church and People in England that Radewald was the first king of East Anglia who converted to Christianity. This is consistent with a pair of spoons found in the ship burial. One says Saul and the other says Paul.
These are obviously baptism spoons, referring to Saul, who became Paul after he converted to Christianity. What we know about Radewald is that he later converted to paganism, apparently retaining the holy land of Christianity and pagan gods. Bede (History of the Church and People in England, Volume II,No. 15) described Reid Wald in this way.
Edwin was so keen on worshipping the truth that he persuaded the East Saxon king, the son of Radewald, to give up his idol superstition and accept the Christian faith and sacraments with the whole province. In fact, his father, Redward, received the sacrament of Christian faith in Kent a long time ago, but in vain. When he came home, he was seduced by his wife and perverse teacher and gave up the truth and honesty.
Therefore, his latter situation is worse than the former one; Therefore, just like the ancient Samaritan, he seems to serve both Christ and the God he served before. In this temple, there is an altar of Christ and a small altar of ghosts. "
The age of these coins cannot be determined, but it seems that they were stored sometime between 6 10 and 635. They all came from Tam, the Frankish kingdom on the mainland, not from any English kingdom, although Kent had already started making coins.