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LOT 1916
Viking Silver 'Hack' Bar and Other Ingot Group
9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
3/8 - 2 5/8 in. (87 grams total, 11-68 mm).
Including flat-section bars, punched lobe and other items. [6, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Spink and Sons, London, UK.
Ex Nigel Mills, London, UK, 2014.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
See Hårdh, B., Silver in the Viking Age. A Regional-Economic Study, Acta Archaeologica Lundensia no.25, Stockholm, 1996.
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