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To: blam
One of the Swedish coins has never been found in Sweden before

I find that very strange.

I would be interested to know why that is.

Were all of the coins of that period destroyed by later kings?

Were all of the coins of that period carried off by foreign conquerors?

5 posted on 09/15/2007 10:03:20 AM PDT by Pontiac (Patriotism is the natural consequence of having a free mind in a free society.)
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To: Pontiac
I would be interested to know why that is.

As traders wo traveled for years at a time, the tendency would be for older coins to leave and newer coins to be used domestically.
If the coins were mainly gold and silver, all the more so as they were the universal coin of trade for centuries.

9 posted on 09/15/2007 10:15:45 AM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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