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  2. Viking coinage - Wikipedia

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    Viking coinage was used during the Viking Age of northern Europe.Prior to the usage and minting of coins, the Viking economy was predominantly a bullion economy, where the weight and size of a particular metal is used as a method of evaluating value, as opposed to the value being determined by the specific type of coin.

  3. Norwegian penning - Wikipedia

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    Norwegian penning minted of Olaf Tryggvason (995-1000) [1] The penning was the dominant currency of the Norwegian coin system in the period 995–1387. [1]Minted in Norway by the kings of Norway from Olaf Tryggvason (995-1000) and up to Olaf Haakonsson (1380-1387), it remained as a unit of account in the kingdom until 1513.

  4. Trade during the Viking Age - Wikipedia

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    Coins played an important role in Viking age trade, with many of the coins that were used by Vikings coming from the Islamic world. More than 80,000 silver Viking age Arab silver dirhams have been found in Gotland, and another 40,000 found in mainland Sweden. These numbers are likely only a fraction of the total influx of Arab currency into ...

  5. Carolingian Coinage and the Vikings - Wikipedia

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    Carolingian Coinage and the Vikings: Studies on Power and Trade in the 9th Century is a non-fiction book by Simon Coupland. It was published in 2007 by Variorum Collected Studies . Further reading

  6. Owner of immensely valuable Viking Age ‘Galloway Hoard’ of ...

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    The Galloway Hoard, discovered in 2014, has been the subject of mystery with theories suggesting it was likely buried by four prosperous owners based on arm rings inscribed with Anglo-Saxon runes.

  7. History of coins - Wikipedia

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    For a timeline graphic showing the progression from pre-coin, to lion, to horsehead imagery on the earliest coins, see Basic Electrum Types. [14] Double-die style struck coin from Ancient India, c 304-232 BCE featuring an elephant on one face and a lion on the other. Since that time, coins have been the most universal embodiment of money.

  8. Vale of York Hoard - Wikipedia

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    The coins date from the late 9th and early 10th centuries, providing a terminus post quem for dating the hoard. The first theory as to a likely 10th-century occasion for such a careful burying was that it had belonged to a wealthy Viking leader during the unrest that followed the conquest of the Viking kingdom of Northumbria in the year 927 by ...

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