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SILVER COIN (ML s.n.)

Type: Silver coin, so-called penny.

Use: Means of payment.

Site: Raisio, Tuomala hoard (1835).

Period: Viking Age.

Dating: 983-996 A.D.

Size: Diameter 18 mm.

Weight: 1.24 g.

Photographer: Antti Huittinen.

A coin minted for Otto III in Dortmund. His name is written on the obverse as ODDO REX; the word rex (king) means that the coin was probably issued before he became emperor in 996. The word THERTMANNI on the back side is the old spelling for Dortmund

Sources:

• Salmo 1948: nro 43:1.

Other pictures:

• Penny from Brussels
• Penny from Tiel
• Penny from Cologne
• Penny from Dortmund
• Penny from Dortmund
• Penny from Goslar.

Inventory number: Suomen kansallismuseon rahakammio/Helsingin yliopiston kokoelma 1835.

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