“We had found a national treasure.” A Super Rare 1,000-Year-Old Coin Reveals How a Viking King Used Money to Spread Christianity
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An extraordinarily rare silver coin captures the struggle to turn Viking Norway into a Christian kingdom. A thousand years ago, Norway was in the …
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