Massive Viking hoard found

The story is in Danish, so you may need a translator, but this is an amazing find! I think that Viking ship coin is new and hasn’t been found before. The others had been extremely rare before his find. Incredible!

https://sydvestjyskemuseer.wordpres...xgiTzHqG3mLvNm8osw0HAKTzrxunesqXJJINdQRhbKaSw

 

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@Treashunt .............read 'em an weep Frank.

 

Wow, what a cool find!

Love the ship coin.

John

 

Praise the Lord for 'Google Translate'........

 

Great article. Thanks for the link.

 

Wow, I want one of those ship coins too. What a treasure.

 

Seriously cool.

 

Way cool !
Are those hints of blue in some patinas what we would call "danish blue" ?

Q

 

Great stuff, thanks for sharing the link!

 

....I'd call it Bluetooth

 

What a great find! I would love to know more about these coins, such as silver content and other find locations.

 

Wow, those coins a beautiful, what a fantastic art style! I noticed they are all anepigraphic. For those of you that could read it, are they coins or tokens of some type?

 

As best I can tell from google translate, they are coins that they think were offered as some kind of sacrifice. It sheds new light on there being a money economy in 9th Century Denmark

 

Thanks, Ken

 

I suspect that tells more about 21st century archaeologists than 9th century coins : -)

 

Other than the finders, have other experts in the coins of that period commented on these being 9th century or coins? I know nothing of the period so can have no opinion worth having.

 

Not that I have seen so far, but I initially saw this story because Rory Naismith posted it on Twitter (he has written extensively on Anglo-Saxon coins, amd is the author of the recent MEC volume on Britain before 1066 - so, geographically different, but correct time period)