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<p>[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 3715065, member: 93416"]Yes - the strongest evidence that the Vikings traded by weight of metal is the huge number of small weights found on their sites, also the random chopping up of both coins and artifacts in hoards.</p><p><br /></p><p>But you are commenting on as slightly different matter - pecking and the purity of the silver. Pecking is to check for plated fakes. The best evidence that they valued the purity of the silver is this. A couple of years back in Stockholm I was shown a Shahi bull and horseman jital found in Sweden. As such it is apparently <u>unique</u>. The Shahis maybe struck a billion of these coins, but we found only one that ever got to Sweden. Very likely indeed that Vikings would not accept coins that were only about 70% fine silver (this one was used in jewellery)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>For decades now I have been banging on about the fact that professional scholars do not understand this whole matter properly. The interesting question before us is not the very well known one everyone mentions: why were the Vikings buying into silver? It is this one: why were the Arabs <u>dumping their silver</u> on the world market?</p><p><br /></p><p>I fear I have just run out of energy on that. Contact me if you have an idea about what I have been getting at (eg around page 42 of "Jitals". 25 years ago <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie15" alt=":arghh:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 3715065, member: 93416"]Yes - the strongest evidence that the Vikings traded by weight of metal is the huge number of small weights found on their sites, also the random chopping up of both coins and artifacts in hoards. But you are commenting on as slightly different matter - pecking and the purity of the silver. Pecking is to check for plated fakes. The best evidence that they valued the purity of the silver is this. A couple of years back in Stockholm I was shown a Shahi bull and horseman jital found in Sweden. As such it is apparently [U]unique[/U]. The Shahis maybe struck a billion of these coins, but we found only one that ever got to Sweden. Very likely indeed that Vikings would not accept coins that were only about 70% fine silver (this one was used in jewellery) For decades now I have been banging on about the fact that professional scholars do not understand this whole matter properly. The interesting question before us is not the very well known one everyone mentions: why were the Vikings buying into silver? It is this one: why were the Arabs [U]dumping their silver[/U] on the world market? I fear I have just run out of energy on that. Contact me if you have an idea about what I have been getting at (eg around page 42 of "Jitals". 25 years ago :arghh:) Rob T[/QUOTE]
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