Thompson, in her analyses of the hacksilver pieces, relates this textual evidence to lead isotope ratios that have ore signatures matching Sardinian ores. Within the Cisjordan Corpus, a concentration of hacksilver hoards occurs in a part of southern Phoenicia that was recorded in antiquity as a territory of the Shardana tribes of Sea Peoples associated with Sardinia. 480 BC appears to have developed first out of cooperative relations between Greeks and Phoenicians, then partly as a competitive, culturally consolidating response to earlier Phoenician expansion and domination of silver trade, which had been conducted with hacksilver. The widespread adoption of Greek silver coinages by c. These formed a part of Achaemenid coinage. The Cisjordan Corpus (c.1200-586 BC) is the largest identified concentration of pre-coinage hacksilver hoards, and provides key evidence for the Phoenician and wider Near Eastern roots of the development and proliferation of the earliest silver coinages in the Greek world and western tradition.Įastern hacksilver from the Achaemenid Levant, including jewellery and Greek coins, 425-420 BC. Hoards of hacksilver are also well known in pre and post-coinage antiquity, in European and Near Eastern contexts. Hoards may typically include a mixture of hacksilver, coins, ingots and complete small pieces of jewellery.
Hacksilver may be derived from silver tableware, Roman or Byzantine, church plate and silver objects such as reliquaries or book-covers, and jewellery from a range of areas. An example of the related Viking weighing scale with weights was found on the Isle of Gigha. The name of the ruble, the basic unit of modern Russian currency, is derived from the Russian verb рубить ('rubit'), meaning "to chop", from the practice of the Rus', described by Ahmad ibn Fadlan visiting the Volga Vikings in 922. Hacksilver may also have been used by Romans in their dealings with Pictish tribes. Hacksilver was common among the Norsemen or Vikings, as a result of both their raiding and trade.
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