Description
Hand carved museum replica Viking earrings with Wilkinger drakkar Viking longship coins. Viking ship motif were very important around 800 AD & were called Hedeby coins. Here the longship has four shields along its edges & a fish in the ocean. Some of the earliest Viking coins are anonymous silver pennies from Hedeby (or Haithabu) a trading post in southern Denmark. These include the only Viking coins depicting ships. The ship coins are so rare that the only published examples are in museums. - Hand carved coins - Solid yellow bronze also called jeweler gold bronze coins. - One sided coin - The coins are about 15 mm or 9/16" - 14 k gold filled ear wire - Gold filled has 100 times more gold than platted. Does not rub off. - Nickel free Feminie Viking Drakkar Coin Earrings - Longship Museum Haithabu Hedeby Wikinger
