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Sweden finds Viking-era Arab coins
The treasure is believed to have been buried at the site around 840AD [Swedish
National Heritage Board]
Archaelogists in Sweden have found a rare collection of Viking-era silver Arab
coins close to Stockholm's Arlanda airport.
About 472 coins were discovered at an early Iron Age burial site.
The majority of the coins were minted in Damascus and Baghdad, but some are
from North Africa and Persia.
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Karin Beckman-Thoor, from the Swedish National Heritage
Board, said that the coins were probably swapped for Viking goods such as iron,
furs and amber in the Baltic states or Russia where Vikings would have met with
people who had traded with Arabs.
The coins were found in a grave in the ground which is believed to be a 1,000
years older than the treasure itself.
The treasure is believed to have been buried there in around 840AD.
The hoard was unearthed when digging began on area identified for a planned
development of new apartments.
Beckman-Thoor said that the Vikings travelled widely and that Viking "graffiti"
had been found on the walls of Istanbul's Hagia Sophia, a fifth-century former
church and mosque which is now a museum.
She said the face value of the coins would be around $8,500 in today's money
but that the Vikings would have valued them purely for their weight in silver
rather than any nominal value.
It is the first find of its kind in this area of Sweden since the 1880s.
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