The_Original_Gronkie t1_ivare3g wrote
Reply to comment by AmbitiousBird5503 in A 1000-year-old Viking silver treasure found in Sweden by drexa24
This guy had all these different coins that he wore as pendants. 5 were Arab coins, and the rest from different European countries. He was an early coin collector, and liked to show them off to his friends. He was probably known for it: "Here comes Lothar! Nobody ask him about the coin around his neck, or that's all we'll hear about for the rest of the night."
It's a really interesting, humanizing detail of this person.
Bassiclyme t1_ivb2sik wrote
They could also have been worn to show his success as a mercenary. A man who survived long enough to get paid by multiple countries with multiple different coins would probably like to make that known. Vikings were know to sail as far as the Black Sea and then traverse to the Middle East by land and offer services as mercenaries.
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