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A unique silver treasure has been uncovered near Sweden’s Arlanda airport.
On Tuesday, archaeologists from the Swedish National Heritage Board dug up the largest collection of Viking-era silver coins found in the Uppland region north of Stockholm in modern times.
The treasure consists of 450 silver coins and was discovered during an investigation of an Iron Age grave site located beside the Steningehöjden area in Sundveda near Arlanda.
Some of the coins come from Bagdad and Damascus and are thought to be from 500 to 840 AD and appear to have been buried around 850 AD. They were found on the edge of a grave which is believed to be 1000 years older than the treasure.
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Martin-of-coin-collecting-secrets | Feb 16, 2009 | Reply
Amazing to read about that here – this site is located not too far from where I live!
Strangely, I haven’t read about this find before.
It is characteristic for the coin hoards usually found in Sweden, btw. It is almost always Arabic silver coins, since these seem to have been used widely for trade and Sweden didn’t mint their own coins until much later. I just read about a huge hoard of gold coins found in England — such things are unheard of here. Sometimes a few gold coins are unearthed but about 99% of hoards is silver. And those Arabic coins are kind of bland.