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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7656420, member: 110504&quot;]Wow, Amazing find, [USER=21309]@midas1[/USER].&nbsp; I&#039;m set to watch the video!&nbsp; Many thanks for posting this.</p><p>It sent me to Gwynn Jones, A History of the Vikings (rev. ed., Oxford, 1984 --still very good), who confirms that, according to primary sources, Charles the Bald&#039;s first &#039;danegeld&#039; was paid in 845, as ransom for Paris; amounting to the 7,000 pounds noted by the Polish professor quoted in the article.&nbsp; ...It&#039;s too bad that, this early in Charles&#039;s reign, his father Louis&#039;s &#039;temple&#039; type would still have been the main one in circulation.&nbsp; Charles&#039;s subsequent issues specified the mint.</p><p>[USER=73099]@Nap[/USER], not only was trade as integral to Viking activity as plunder from the onset of the Viking Age (a phrase used nowadays as much for its ethnographic connotations as for the common --as such, frequently apt-- stereotype); as the Polish professor noted, it already ranged from the North Sea to the southern coast of the Black Sea, and points south and east.&nbsp; Which, precisely to your point, is how the hoard would&#039;ve found its way there.&nbsp; </p><p>...Horn-tooting inexorably ensues.&nbsp; You&#039;re cordially invited to look at this post, from earlier this week.</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/another-cut-coin.381800/#post-7652277" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/another-cut-coin.381800/#post-7652277">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/another-cut-coin.381800/#post-7652277</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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