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Birka Dirham - Viking / Islamic - 9-10th century

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Technical features

- The price and shipping costs are decreasing according to the quantity. Please select the desired quantity.
- Coin, made of lead.
- Coin diameter: 22mm.
- You can choose three surface finition / colours: Silver, gold, and bronze.
- Manufactured in France, on order, and shipped worldwide within 2 weeks.

Our philosophy is to offer you quality replicas, characterized by slight imperfections, evidence of a manual manufacturing process, like old pieces, often imperfect, which is what gives them their charm.

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Historical informations

Arabian silver dirham, excavated in the grave #750, Birka, Sweden, Viking age. The coin is probably dating to 7-8th century, and was in use many years later.
The Vikings valued Islamic coins because of their purity of silver. These pieces have a very wide spatial and chronological distribution era. Such Dirhams are also in circulation in the Rus space, and are sometimes even the subject of counterfeiting since the early Middle Ages.


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