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Here is one which will may you look twice...
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tourist reproduction
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Chuckle, yes it's a reproduction, but it was made specially for The Society for Creative Anachronism.
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It's a "what if" fantasy. Specifically, "What if the Viking colonists in North America had been prosperous enough to become an independent kingdom and make their own coins?".

Obverse: LEIF EIRICSSON
Reverse: VINLAND MONETA
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Always gotta be too straight on the flan to be real anyway
Anlaf Guthfrithsson is the one I had on a coin I got a the Jorvik viking centre when I was about 9 or 10
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As soon as I posted "reproduction", I read the legend and thought "wait, that has got to be a fantasy!".

It is a fantasy based on Viking imitations of Anglo-Saxon silver pennies

Here is an interesting piece on Viking coinage

Thanks for posting it, fantasies are fun.
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I like the one I saw where you see the typical reverse of a Morgan dollar and on the other side you read a date something like 1864(!?) and it has liberty in an indian headdress left..
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