 Importantly, these new coins all bore the king's name and (usually) the name of the issuing mint.English rulers followed suit around the same time, and the earliest signs of reform outside Northumbria (where a substantial and relatively high quality silver coinage remained in production, albeit sporadically, over the 8th century) came in East Anglia, where the obscure ruler Beonna reformed the local coinage sometime after he came to the throne in 749.His coins bear the royal name and that of the moneyer, and in fabric are midway between the "sceattas" and the new Frankish pennies.