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SILVER COIN (MV s.n.*/MLDP9803)

Type: Silver coin, so-called penny.

Use: Means of payment.

Site: Raisio, Tuomala hoard (1835).

Period: Viking Age.

Dating: 1024-1030 A.D.

Size: Diameter 19 mm.

Weight: 1.10 g.

Photographer: Antti Huittinen.

This coin was minted by Cnut the Great (1016-35) in Exeter, southwest England. Cnut was a Danish Viking king who ruled over England, too. Some 300 coins of his have been found in Finland. On this type of coin, the king is shown with a sceptre in his hand and a pointed helmet in his head.

Sources:

• Talvio 1978: No. 762

Other related pictures:

• Penny from Canterbury
• Penny from Chester

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

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