Pendentif Dirham Birka, VIIIe siècle, bronze argenté

Description du produit

This pendant is a detailed replica of a Viking Age Arab dirham coin, modeled after a find from Birka. The coin, like the original, has a small eye to wear as a pendant.

Arabic dirhams were loved by the Vikings for their purity argent and were traded throughout Scandinavia and Europe; they often appear in treasure finds and were regularly converted into pendants, as several finds confirm. La pièce elle-même a été frappée sous le règne du calife Al-Walid I (674-715), le sixième calife de la dynastie des Omeyyades, et porte des inscriptions arabes avec des textes religieux et mentionnant qu'elle a été frappée à Wasit.

An authentic accessory for those who want to depict the trading contacts of the Vikings with the Islamic world.