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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;4to2centBC, post: 2692370, member: 76181&quot;]<a href="http://www.archaeology.org/issues/240-1701/features/5123-sweden-gotland-viking-wealth" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.archaeology.org/issues/240-1701/features/5123-sweden-gotland-viking-wealth" rel="nofollow">http://www.archaeology.org/issues/240-1701/features/5123-sweden-gotland-viking-wealth</a></p><p><br /></p><p>A really informative read. An excerpt</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]604222[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course I have this, which always leads me to articles such as that above.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]604224[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><b>Viking Trading Weight</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>ANGLO-SAXON, Anglo-Viking (Danish East Anglia). Late 9th century (870-899CE). PB lead 1.33 Ore = 35.85g 21mm. Circular lead weight. Obverse inset with Series K, type 32a sceat. Circa 720-740. Wolf headed coiled serpent obverse. Mint in East Kent Cf. G. Williams, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Coin Weights, in BNJ 69 (1999), no. 5 (for a similar lead weight with inset Porcupine-type sceat). For inset: Abramson 38.40.10 SCBI 63 (BM), 490 SCBC 803C-D. Bordered by incuse triangles containing one raised dot. Much as made.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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