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LOT 1494
Viking Age Gold Plunder Dinar Coin Pendant
8TH-9TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (4.43 grams, 22 mm).
Formed using an Abbasid Caliphate dinar coin with ridged suspension loop attached. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Ex property of a London gentleman.
Such Islamic coins were traded across the Viking world and have been discovered as grave goods or in hoards (as coins and as jewellery items) in Scandinavia and the Baltic area.
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