Very much a first draft, decided to look at wider context of Indian coins in Britain after stumbling on them in the PAS: comments welcome :)
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@caitlinrgreen Ive loved these posts! I wonder though about the non-hoard Indian finds. Some amnt of S.Asian coinage came back in 18th-20thc -
@MitchFraas Thank you! I agree, non-hoard coins=worrisome. Think Shahi coins of right period+metal as continental coins=plausible, others > -
@MitchFraas > need more scepticism? As you say, later S. Indian coins def came back as 'tourist' pieces, so possible some early ones too.
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For more on Helgö Buddha, 6thC statue from Gandhāra region found in 8thC Swedish context, see http://irisharchaeology.ie/2013/12/the-helgo-treasure-a-viking-age-buddha/ …pic.twitter.com/0Zo7NsVW75
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I find this wanderer from a distant land particularly moving for some reason I can't explain.
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Afraid I can't see the tweet you're replying to here, for some reason... :-/
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Sorry - it was a reply to you re. the Viking horde Buddha.
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Ah! Yes, absolutely.
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Lovely map of kingdoms that dirhams+Indian coins would have passed thro on way to N. Europe :) http://www.learn.columbia.edu/courses/medmil/pages/non-mma-pages/maps/penguin.html …pic.twitter.com/gZOTLwj5xQ
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Another rather lovely one, looking at trade routes and goods in the earlier eleventh century: http://www.learn.columbia.edu/courses/medmil/pages/non-mma-pages/maps/penguinpg59.html …pic.twitter.com/3ZDTGnoKli
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Interestingly, both Islamic+Indian coins arguably represent payments made to Vikings for massive numbers of slaves: http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/dirhamsforslaves/index.php/en/ …
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If *was* primarily this, then trade=huge, as suggested that 100,000,000+ silver coins sent north from Central Asia:http://www.medievalists.net/2010/06/21/dirham-mint-output-of-samanid-samarqand-and-its-connection-to-the-beginnings-of-trade-with-northern-europe-10th-century/ …
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Relevant? Gold wrapped around silk thread in Gokstad ship (c900), Norway, poss=Chinese import http://sciencenordic.com/norwegian-vikings-purchased-silk-persia …pic.twitter.com/nS7cEtHpCp
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Most Viking-era silk etc from Persia/Byzantine Empire, but a few poss bits from China--could these pieces have come w/ dirhams/Indian coins?
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The two early medieval coins of Gujarat, India, found in Britain: http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=7144&cat=38 … & http://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ukdfddata/showrecords.php?product=3936&title=silver-drachm&cat=17 …pic.twitter.com/HCPaVnNIZp
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@caitlinrgreen@barbarikon The second one at least, according to the link, may well have been brought to Britain not so long ago, then lost. -
@mjd1735@barbarikon Depends on dating of 2nd coin, if after E11thC then not part of Viking-Asian trade--could still be a pre-modern tho > -
@mjd1735@barbarikon >, although chances must increase that is modern 'tourist loss' :)
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