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SILVER COIN (MV s.n.*/MLDP9809)

Type: Silver coin, so-called penny.

Use: Means of payment.

Site: Raisio, Tuomala hoard (1835).

Period: Viking Age.

Dating: 1002-1024 A.D.

Size: Diameter 22 mm.

Weight: 1.24 g.

Photographer: Antti Huittinen.

This Colognian coin was minted for Henry II (1002-24). The name of the city is written as SCA [Sancta] COLONIA A[grippina], the city having originally been a Roman colony named after Agrippina, a Roman empress.

Sources:

• Salmo 1948: No. 35:401.

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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