But Alyattes had been making coins out of electrum, a naturally occurring gold-and-silver alloy that often has bits of other metals in it. Alyattes' coins were standardized based on weight ...

and is the first silver coin found to have been minted by a Viking ruler in Britain. The Somerset hoard of 2,584 silver coins was acquired by the South West Heritage Trust, with the support of the ...

In 2015, George Powell and Layton Davies uncovered 300 coins and gold jewellery in a field in ... were Anglo-Saxon and to have been hidden by a Viking. One of them was a double-headed coin ...

For Weale, finding the first silver coin minted by a Viking ruler in Britain was the ... a seventh-century gold and garnet necklace, and a gold signet ring with an intriguing link to Queen ...

For Weale, finding the first silver coin minted by a Viking ruler in Britain was the ... a seventh-century gold and garnet necklace, and a gold signet ring with an intriguing link to Queen ...