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<p>[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 3713102, member: 96898"]Many Scandinavian hoard finds from the late Viking Age contain predominantly Saxon coins, illustrating the trade networks between the German speaking lands, Scandinavia, and the Baltic regions. Vera Jammer has done a very useful map of hoard finds:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]995100[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3">(from V. Jammer: Die Anfänge der Münzprägung im Herzogtum Sachsen, Hamburg 1952)</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Most of these Saxon coins look like this and have been thoroughly 'abused' (bent and pecked) to test the silver:</font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]995107[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Otto III with Adelheid of Burgundy as regent (or immobilized under his successors), Holy Roman Empire, "Otto-Adelheid-Penny," 983/991– ca. 1050, probably Goslar mint. Obv: [+D]'I GR'A + R[EX], cross with OD[D]O in quadrangles. Rev: [A]TEAH[LHT]; "wooden church," pellet to right. 19mm, 1.39g. Hatz IV 5/6.</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">[ATTACH=full]995108[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Under the early Salian emperors, anonymous regional moneyer, "Saxon penny", ca. 1025–1060 AD, struck in the Saale region close to Naumburg. Obv: legend of strokes and I-X-?-V (CRVX–type), cross with pellets and ringlets in quadrants. Rev: egend of strokes and C-V-X-?(CRVX–type), cross of wedges. 16mm, 1.17g. Ref: Dannenberg 1338 var (1337 on plate due to printing error).</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">Also, here is a denier of Charles the Bald, who paid the Viking fleet under Ragnar a ransom of 7,000 French pounds in gold and silver to end the siege of Paris in 845 AD. Some of this ransom will have looked like this:</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">[ATTACH=full]995106[/ATTACH] </font></p><p><font size="3">Charles the Bald, Western Carolingian Empire, AR denier, 840–877 AD, "Curtisasonien" mint (Courcessin or Courgeon). Obv: +CRATIA D-I REX; Karolus monogram. Rev: +HCVRTISASONIEH; cross. 19.5mm, 1.69g. Ref: MEC I, 860–864. Ex Teutoburger Münzauktionen, Auction 123, lot 1823.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 3713102, member: 96898"]Many Scandinavian hoard finds from the late Viking Age contain predominantly Saxon coins, illustrating the trade networks between the German speaking lands, Scandinavia, and the Baltic regions. Vera Jammer has done a very useful map of hoard finds: [ATTACH=full]995100[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3](from V. Jammer: Die Anfänge der Münzprägung im Herzogtum Sachsen, Hamburg 1952) [/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Most of these Saxon coins look like this and have been thoroughly 'abused' (bent and pecked) to test the silver:[/SIZE] [SIZE=3][ATTACH=full]995107[/ATTACH] Otto III with Adelheid of Burgundy as regent (or immobilized under his successors), Holy Roman Empire, "Otto-Adelheid-Penny," 983/991– ca. 1050, probably Goslar mint. Obv: [+D]'I GR'A + R[EX], cross with OD[D]O in quadrangles. Rev: [A]TEAH[LHT]; "wooden church," pellet to right. 19mm, 1.39g. Hatz IV 5/6. [ATTACH=full]995108[/ATTACH] Under the early Salian emperors, anonymous regional moneyer, "Saxon penny", ca. 1025–1060 AD, struck in the Saale region close to Naumburg. Obv: legend of strokes and I-X-?-V (CRVX–type), cross with pellets and ringlets in quadrants. Rev: egend of strokes and C-V-X-?(CRVX–type), cross of wedges. 16mm, 1.17g. Ref: Dannenberg 1338 var (1337 on plate due to printing error).[/SIZE] [SIZE=4] Also, here is a denier of Charles the Bald, who paid the Viking fleet under Ragnar a ransom of 7,000 French pounds in gold and silver to end the siege of Paris in 845 AD. Some of this ransom will have looked like this: [ATTACH=full]995106[/ATTACH] [/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Charles the Bald, Western Carolingian Empire, AR denier, 840–877 AD, "Curtisasonien" mint (Courcessin or Courgeon). Obv: +CRATIA D-I REX; Karolus monogram. Rev: +HCVRTISASONIEH; cross. 19.5mm, 1.69g. Ref: MEC I, 860–864. Ex Teutoburger Münzauktionen, Auction 123, lot 1823.[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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