I just recently acquired a banknote that among other things depicts a couple of vikings in horned helmets. I had also recently read a report that the vikings did not really have a helmet style with horns that was worn. I have not researched it further. Is this enough information for a numismatic detective to guess what my note is?
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Wow! That fantasy note fits the bill. But looking for a real, legal, government or bank, issued note. I will say it isn't as dramatic as the note you showed.
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What a great Ukranian note! Is it possible that vikings were in the Ukraine? I have read of their presence in Rome, Paris, and that as the Rus were in Russia as well. The boat certainly appears vikingy...but I have in mind another nation and another note.
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Quote: "Oklahoman"What a great Ukranian note! Is it possible that vikings were in the Ukraine? I have read of their presence in Rome, Paris, and that as the Rus were in Russia as well. The boat certainly appears vikingy...but I have in mind another nation and another note.
Popular history says that Ukraine had many Vikings visit and stay there, and they potentially even founded Kiev. It's debated among historians though.
Still have some stuff from the grand kids. Why I really don't know why. It was my grandson's who is 18 now.
edit early German notes I think I remember seeing some Vikings
Quote: "ALLRED1950" Still have some stuff from the grand kids. Why I really don't know why. It was my grandson's who is 18 now.
edit early German notes I think I remember seeing some Vikings
That Spongebob toy belonged to someone who is now 18? x_x I feel so old.
We almost had so much symmetry happening. We posted at the exact same moment and I have 381 posts and you have 3382 posts.
Gotta even that up.
That's why it must suck to be immortal though. At some point everything is like blinking. You think everything blurs together now...imagine what life is like for the immortals.
Excellent! The 10 shilling has the same design as the 50 pence I was thinking of. And if you look closely...you can see the vikings in their horned helmets.
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Horned helmets were a thing a few centuries before the Viking Age, they were fully out of style before the Vikings came onto the scene at all. I think the horned helmet in association with Vikings caught fire at some point in the 1800s. Much like our (pretty much wrong) depiction of pirates comes from popular culture, someone wrote about Vikings having horned helmets and the image just stuck.
