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SILVER COIN (MV s.n.*/MLDP9811)

Type: Silver coin, so-called penny.

Use: Means of payment.

Site: Raisio, Tuomala hoard (1835).

Period: Viking Age.

Dating: 1002-14 A.D.

Size: Diameter 17 mm.

Weight: 1.41 g.

Photographer: Antti Huittinen.

This coin was minted for Henry II (1002-24) in Dortmund before he become the emperor in 1014. On the reverse the name of the city is written as THRETMANI and as a mirror image; irregularities like this were common in coins of that time. Some 50 coins of Dortmund are known in Finland.

Sources:

• Salmo 1948: No. 43:15.

Other pictures:

• Penny from Brussels
• Penny from Tiel
• Penny from Cologne
• Penny from Dortmund
• Penny from Dortmund
• Penny from Goslar

* Inventory number: Suomen kansallismuseon rahakammio / Helsingin yliopiston kokoelma 1835.

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