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LOT 1570
Viking Age Silver 'Hack Money' Bar Ingot Group
9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
5/8 - 2 1/8 in. (38.9 grams total, 17-55 mm).
Rectangular in section, irregular; one with punched triangular stamps. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Spink and Sons, London, UK.
Ex Nigel Mills, London, UK, 2014.
See Hårdh, B., Silver in the Viking Age. A Regional-Economic Study, Acta Archaeologica Lundensia no.25, Stockholm, 1996.
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