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SILVER COIN (MV s.n.*/MLDP9805)

Type: Silver coin, so-called penny.

Use: Means of payment.

Site: Raisio, Tuomala hoard (1835).

Period: Viking Age.

Dating: Ca. 1000 A.D./font>

Size: Diameter 20 mm. (half)

Weight: 1.65 g.

Photographer: Antti Huittinen.

This is an Irish imitation of an English penny. The words SIHTRIC C[ununc] around the royal bust mean King Sigtrygg 'Silkbeard', or Sihtric III (ca. 994-1035), the Viking ruler of Dublin. Some 20 Irish coins from the beginning of the 11th century are known from Finland.

Sources:

• TAlvio 1978: No. 920.

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

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