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Viking Hack Silver
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Viking Age (c.800 A.D. – c.1100 A.D.), an interesting group of Hacksilver, 8 pieces in total, weights and maximum diameter given below. $2250 SOLD

Hacksilver is the term given to the groups of silver ingots and pieces of scrap silver, often from jewelry and tableware that the Viking communities of the Eastern Baltic, Scandinavia, Iceland and the British Isles used as a form of currency.

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Piece #1 – 22mm x 19mm, 4.18g. Part of the rim from a silver cup or bowl, elaborately decorated with an interlaced pattern on the outside, pellet ring decoration on rim inside.

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Piece #2 – 29mm x 10mm, 1.37g
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Piece #3 – 100mm x 9mm, 17.00g
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Piece #4 – 64mm x 4mm, 2.65g
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Piece #5 – 26mm x 19mm, 3.90g
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Piece #6 – 59mm x 5mm, 11.67g
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Piece #7 – 97mm x 20mm, 15.28g
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Piece #8 – 17mm x 28mm, 4.12g