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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 5228205, member: 10461&quot;]Neat.&nbsp; Funny how much that hoard shown in the article looks like much later Viking hacksilver.</p><p><br /></p><p>Canaanite silver hoard pictured in the article, ca. 12th century BC:</p><p><img src="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Ejwk74iLQw5R5RuNoho8vD-970-80.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuerdale_Hoard" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuerdale_Hoard" rel="nofollow">Cuerdale Hoard</a> of Viking <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacksilver" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacksilver" rel="nofollow">hacksilver</a>, ca. 10th century AD:</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Cuerdale_hoard_viking_silver_british_museum.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But then I guess little bits and bobs of broken jewelry and such didn&#039;t differ a whole lot between the millennia.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Silver was silver (or not, when counterfeit, as mentioned in the article), and the form it took was pretty similar regardless of the era.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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