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Tdec1000Tdec1000 Posts: 3,852 ✭✭✭
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What do the coins look like during the time of the Vikings?
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    DeliaBugDeliaBug Posts: 881 ✭
    That would be the Mediaeval period and could cover everything from Anglo-Saxon coinage in Britain to the Byzantine coinage after the Roman Imperial period.
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    coachbedfordcoachbedford Posts: 189
    There are Danish, Viking-struck coins but they are pretty rare and hard to find. More available and affordable (though a circulated example would still cost you around $150-200) would be silver pennies of England under Aethelred II (978-1016) and Cnut (1016-35)-- Cnut was actually a Viking king of Europe.

    A VERY affordable "Viking coin" would be an Islamic silver dirhem (750-1050 A.D) as these often wound up in Viking treasure hoards because they traded with Islamic nations quite a bit and LOVED their silver coins. These dirhems cost around $30 to $40 for pretty nice examples.

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