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LOT 0355
Scandinavian Viking 'Hoard' of Hacked Gold and Silver with Weights, Scales and Pans
9TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.
3/8 - 7 7/8 in. (284 grams total, 1-20 cm).
Comprising: articulated arms for a scale balance with spike gnomon; two hemispherical bowls each with suspension holes at the rim; three trade weights each with a struck motif to one faces; group of complete and cut-half silver dirham coins; six cut fragments of silver ingot; small gold ingot fragment. [21, No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
See Graham-Campbell, J & Philpott, R., The Huxley Viking Hoard - Scandinavian Settlement in the North West, Liverpool, 2009, for discussion of hoarding and silver production at this time.
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LOT 0355
Scandinavian Viking 'Hoard' of Hacked Gold and Silver with Weights, Scales and Pans
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,105
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