Another coin from the Ryedale hoard. This time an official penny of Edward the Elder with Viking peck marks to ensure they were truly silverpic.twitter.com/gooRVyQzYi
Was counterfeiting common enough that Viking raiders were worried about it?
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1/2 The Vikings tended not to use coins at this time so were simply testing coins in general to check they were silver
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2/2 the person making the peck marks probably didn't always know the difference between official and unofficial coins.
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but quite a few unofficial coins around in the mid to late 9th century.
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