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SILVER COIN (MV s.n.*/MLDP9808)

Type: Silver coin, so-called penny.

Use: Means of payment.

Site: Raisio, Tuomala hoard (1835).

Period: Viking Age.

Dating: 996-1002 A.D.

Size: Diameter 17 mm.

Weight: 1.10 g.

Photographer: Antti Huittinen.

This coin was minted for the emperor Otto III (983-1002) in Cologne, as is shown by the abbreviated Latin name of that city, S[ancta] COLONIA A[grippina], on the obverse. Colognian coins are very common in Viking-Age finds: in Finland more than 500 coins are known.

Sources:

• Salmo 1948: No. 35:216.

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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