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Coins, hackmetal, scales and weights. The lively Viking coin designs, from Anlaf to Harthacnut, with their triquetra, swords, hammers, banners and world serpent, stand in striking contrast to the conventional English formats.

There's a very interesting article on the distribution of Viking spheroid oblate weights (see the image of scales and weights below) here: http://vikingmetalwork.blogspot.com/2012/11/standardised-viking-weights-part-1.html
The first Scandinavian coin type from Ribe, Denmark, early 8th C, published SCBI 69, 345. The Kingdom of Northumbria, Eanred copper styca (810-841), from the Bolton Percy Hoard, found 1847. The Kingdom of Northumbria, Æthelred II copper styca from Bolton Percy hoard found in 1847. Charles the Bald (Le Chauve) AD 840-877 Silver Denier, CARLVS Rex type, Tolosa (Toulouse), 21mm, 1.78g, KAROLUS monogram. Danelaw, Penny, after Alfred the Great's Two Line type, copying Mercian dies, Eadwald, ælfred re+ irregularly spaced
Viking St Eadmund memorial penny. ca 895-915. Viking St Eadmund memorial penny. Danelaw East Anglia penny, St Edmund Memorial coinage, Penny, SC ENYNT, SDORI I N Penny of SIEFRED. +SI EF RED US, ca 894-898. Illustration of this scarce type in Hawkins, E. 1842. AN ACCOUNT OF COINS AND TREASURE FOUND IN CUERDALE
Viking Kingdom of York, Hunedeus and Cnut, 'Cunetti' Group (c.895-902), Penny, York mint. Viking St Peter penny, phase 1, ca 905-910, EBORACIT Viking St Peter sword and Thor hammer penny, York. ca 919-925. Aethelstan portrait on silver penny. He conquered York in 927. Anlaf Guthfrisson (939-941), York, a beautiful example of the most iconic of Viking coins
Silver penny of Eadmund (939-946), coeval with the Anlaf penny of York and imitated o the reverse of that coin Anlaf Sihtricsson, 941-943. Stamford Bridge, Yorkshire. Triquetra with 5 dots in each arm of the triquetra. Anlaf Sihtricsson, 941-943, tasseled banner design. Found by a detectors near Stamford Bridge, North Yorkshire. Richard I of Normandy, silver denier, 960 - 980, RICARDUS around cross; ROTOMAGUS around stylized temple. Richard I of Normandy, silver denier, 960 - 980, RICARDUS around cross; ROTOMAGUS around stylized temple.
Early Danish semibracteate, 10th century, thought to be Hedeby mint. Hauberg 1, KG9, after Carolingian Dorestat denier c 975-980, Harald Bluetooth half bracteate, perhaps Jelling mint c 975-980, Harald Bluetooth half bracteate, perhaps Jelling mint Silver penny of Aethelred II (978-1016), Long Cross type (c.997-c.1003), York, Hundulf. ÆÐELRED REX ANGLO, Viking peck marks. Silver penny of Aethelred II (978-1016), Long Cross type (c.997-c.1003), York, Hundulf. ÆÐELRED REX ANGLO, Viking peck marks.
Coin of Sihtric (Sigtrygg Silkbeard), 1015-1035, Hiberno-Norse Phase II. Dublin mint, Faeremin moneyer. Otto III (983-1002) traded coin showing interlaced triquetra. HARDACNUT RX around the world serpent, Lund Mint. Harthacnut was England's last Viking king. AS:LAC ON LUN moneyer Harthacnut serpent penny with confused legend
Harthacnut penny, Roskilde mint. See Hauberg 1900 Tab. V no 32. Svend Estridsen penny (1047-1074) Svend Estridsen penny (1047-1074) Olaf Haraldsson, who participated in the attempted Norwegian invasion of England in 1066 Viking Age scales and spheroid oblate weights
Viking cubo-octahedral weight, 23 mm on the diagonal, Ukraine. Polyhedral weight, 25 mm, Wychnor near Tamworth, Staffordshire. Viking Age cube-octahedral weight, 17 mm, Yorkshire. Lead weight, 29 mm diameter, with inset fragment of insular metalwork, Aldwark, North Yorkshire. Kievan Rus' 46 mm copper ingot wrapped in gold with ornament of five circles. ca 9th C.
Kievan Rus' 23 mm copper ingot wrapped in gold, Ukraine. The ruse was revealed by a small knife cut. 4 cm ingot of Viking Age silver with triangle and circle stamped decoration. UK. 31 mm silver ingot, Yorkshire. Viking Islamic hacksilver (resonant for me given four years living on the Arabian Peninsula). Complete Viking Age Abbasid dirham from 814, Samarkand, al-Mamun
A Cordoba dirham from the year of the Viking attack on Seville