Coin, Swedish History Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

Nordic silver coin or halvpenning, c. 825, with ship with shields and reefed sail, probably made in Ribe, Jutland, discovered in a grave in Johannishus, Hjortsberga parish, Blekinge, in the Swedish History Museum, a history and archaeology museum founded 1866, in Stockholm, Sweden. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Nordic silver coin or halvpenning, c. 825, with ship with shields and reefed sail, probably made in Ribe, Jutland, discovered in a grave in Johannishus, Hjortsberga parish, Blekinge, in the Swedish History Museum, a history and archaeology museum founded 1866, in Stockholm, Sweden. Picture by Manuel Cohen