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Amulet of the Norse goddess Freyja. It is a copy of a find of a Viking period silver amulet from Aska in Hagebyhöga parish, Aska hundred, Vadstena municipality, Östergötland, Sweden.

Depiction connected with Norse mythology based on the Old Norse Þrymskviða poem in which Thor dresses up as Freyja to travel to giantland - the giant Thrym has stolen his hammer and demands Freyja as condition for its return. Freyja refuses...

Depiction by Johannes Gehrts of the Norse goddess Freyja, here seen with her cat-drawn carriage and wearing the necklace Brísingamen.

Artist's depiction of the Norse goddess Freyja putting on her necklace Brísingamen.

A silver rhyton from Yerznka, ancient Armenia, 5th century BCE when it was ruled by the Orontid dynasty.

Silver. Weight: e.g. 9,6 gr., 9,9 gr., 10,4 gr. – Persian stater;
 e.g. 8,7 gr., 9,2 gr., – Attic didrachm.

d≈18/20-21/23 mm.

 Obverse: Archaic female head to the right within the linear circle (the same as on the II type hemidrachm).

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Silver. Weight – 5,52 gr.

d=17/19 mm.

 Obverse: Lion’s head facing.

 Reverse: Bull’s head to the right in quadratum incusum. Mint: Phasis. Nominal: Siglos of the Persian system Date: 5th c. BCE.

Silver. The weights range from 1,7 to 2,6 gr. 

d=11/12-12/13 mm.

 Obverse: Lion’s head to the right/left, showing teeth.

 Reverse: Lioness’ protome to the right in quadratum incusum. Mint: Phasis. Nominal: Attic system hemidrachm...

Silver. Weights range from 1,2 to 2,6 gr.

d≈12 mm.

 Obverse: Archaic female head to right/left within the linear circle or in border of the dots

. Reverse: Bull’s head to right within the linear circle. Some of the coins are with the...

Silver. Weight: 0,150 gr., 0,111 gr., 0,110 gr.

 Obverse: Archaic female head to the right (identical with archaic female head depicted on the II type hemidrachm).

 Reverse: Bird (crane) to the right. Mint: Phasis. Nominal: Attic...