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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8084542, member: 110504"]Yep, [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER], you nailed it. Can't cite anything off the top of my head, but it's been emerging recently how central the eastern Baltic was to the Viking world. Makes immediate, intuitive geographic sense, being directly in between Scandinavia and greater Kievan Rus'. The majority of the Salian ones I've gotten from Estonia have peck marks. ...For numismatic references per se, what I have to complement Spofford is Graham-Campbell et al., <u>The Silver Economy in the Viking Age</u> (2007). Even more tangentially, I cited this in a post just within the last week or so, on late Anglo-Saxon coins found in Poland.</p><p><a href="https://brittlebooks.library.illinois.edu/brittlebooks_open/Books2012-12/nordca0001angsax/nordca0001angsax.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://brittlebooks.library.illinois.edu/brittlebooks_open/Books2012-12/nordca0001angsax/nordca0001angsax.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://brittlebooks.library.illinois.edu/brittlebooks_open/Books2012-12/nordca0001angsax/nordca0001angsax.pdf</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 8084542, member: 110504"]Yep, [USER=56653]@seth77[/USER], you nailed it. Can't cite anything off the top of my head, but it's been emerging recently how central the eastern Baltic was to the Viking world. Makes immediate, intuitive geographic sense, being directly in between Scandinavia and greater Kievan Rus'. The majority of the Salian ones I've gotten from Estonia have peck marks. ...For numismatic references per se, what I have to complement Spofford is Graham-Campbell et al., [U]The Silver Economy in the Viking Age[/U] (2007). Even more tangentially, I cited this in a post just within the last week or so, on late Anglo-Saxon coins found in Poland. [URL]https://brittlebooks.library.illinois.edu/brittlebooks_open/Books2012-12/nordca0001angsax/nordca0001angsax.pdf[/URL][/QUOTE]
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