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 Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 7:57 am Post subject: Swedes find Viking-era Arab coins |
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Page last updated at 12:35 GMT, Friday, 4 April 2008 13:35 UK
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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."
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I would love to have Viking coins... |
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