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Swedes find Viking-era Arab coins




The Arab coins reveal where they were minted and the date
Swedish archaeologists have discovered a rare hoard of Viking-age silver Arab coins near Stockholm's Arlanda airport.
About 470 coins were found on 1 April at an early Iron Age burial site. They date from the 7th to 9th Century, when Viking traders travelled widely.
There has been no similar find in that part of Sweden since the 1880s.
Most of the coins were minted in Baghdad and Damascus, but some came from Persia and North Africa, said archaeologist Karin Beckman-Thoor.
The team from the Swedish National Heritage Board had just started removing a stone cairn at the site "when we suddenly found one coin and couldn't understand why it was there", she told the BBC News website.




"We continued digging and found more coins and realised it was a Viking-age hoard." The coins were left there in about AD850, she said.
Such Viking hoards usually come from Gotland - a large Swedish island in the Baltic Sea, she explained.
"No Viking was buried at this site - the grave is older. Maybe the Vikings thought the hoard would be protected by ancestors," Ms Beckman-Thoor added. Vikings had settled in a village nearby.
The Vikings travelled widely in their longships in the Baltic region and Russia from the late 8th to the 11th Century. They are known to have travelled as far as North Africa and Constantinople (now Istanbul).





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cool find
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I am glad things are finally getting sorted out on this. I do not think it was a "recent" find.

   But I could be thinking of another find that I heard about a few months ago before fall.

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this find was April 1 according to article....could you be thinking of this? i recall posting about it. :

In Pictures: Viking treasure haul
19 Jul 07 |  In Pictures
Viking treasure trove unearthed
19 Jul 07 |  Science/Nature





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That sounds like it. I remember there was a big hoop-a-la about someone finding treasure on their own land and the government stepping in and claiming heritage rights. But you would think that money could be made for both parties, by selling the digging rights to a government sanctioned group, where both parties would be happy. I have heard horror stories of ancient sites found on private lands.

 





 

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I hope to make it up to Newfoundland this summer as Vikings are a real interest to me.
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Nice treasure hunting, LC :)




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The surprising amount of Arabic and early-Islamic and Parthian coins (like a few in that picture), found so far from home in Viking contexts, are always fascinating. It shows how vast the trading networks actually were in the so-called "Dark Ages".

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