The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 51, December 4, 2005, Article 27

11TH CENTURY NORWEGIAN COINS FOUND IN ICELAND

Arthur Shippee forwarded the following item, which
was mentioned in The Explorator newsletter.
Iceland Review reports " two coins from the 11th
century reign of Norwegian King Haraldur which
were found in the ruins of three houses which
were discovered last year at Háls at Kárahnjúkar
have now been examined.

The house ruins are almost 600 metres above sea
level. Páll Pálsson, farmer at Adalból, found
them, and Landsvirkjun (the National Power department)
decided to have them examined, a process that
was only completed this year.

According to Anton Holt, a coin expert at the
Sedlabanki Íslands coin collection, these coins
are very rare. He says that today there are only
33 other known specimens of this coin."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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