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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;4to2centBC, post: 2444039, member: 76181&quot;]I received this from Jane Kershaw who is a post-doc in Viking studies and has a blog here.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://vikingmetalwork.blogspot.com/2016/04/anglo-saxon-silver-in-viking-hoards.html?showComment=1465930677244#c1128949733602705774" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://vikingmetalwork.blogspot.com/2016/04/anglo-saxon-silver-in-viking-hoards.html?showComment=1465930677244#c1128949733602705774" rel="nofollow">https://vikingmetalwork.blogspot.com/2016/04/anglo-saxon-silver-in-viking-hoards.html?showComment=1465930677244#c1128949733602705774</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/13297297697953458552" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/13297297697953458552" rel="nofollow">Jane Kershaw</a><a href="https://vikingmetalwork.blogspot.com/2016/04/anglo-saxon-silver-in-viking-hoards.html?showComment=1465926741699#c1801800610896179787" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://vikingmetalwork.blogspot.com/2016/04/anglo-saxon-silver-in-viking-hoards.html?showComment=1465926741699#c1801800610896179787" rel="nofollow">14 June 2016 at 10:52</a></p><p><i>Thanks for this. I saw the photo - I think it&#039;s likely your weight is 9thC. Although the embedded coin is earlier, the triangular markings are something we see quite a lot on Viking-Age material (ie. 9-10thC), and the weights as a whole do belong to this later time period - some of them utilising coins which would have been old at the time.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So it appears that the coin managed to stay in pretty good condition for at least a century, before someone created the weight and placed the sceat into it.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it is an uncommon sceat, but I don&#039;t know how uncommon. The imagery may have have been an attraction to the creator/owner of the weight.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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