Hand carved museum replica viking earrings with drakkar Viking longship coins. Viking ship motif were very important around 800 AD and were called Hedeby coins. Here the longship has four shields along its edges and a fish in the ocean. Some of the earliest Viking coins are anonymous silver pennies from Hedeby (or Haithabu) a trading post in southern Denmark. These include the only Viking coins depicting ships. The ship coins are so rare that the only published examples are in museums. - Hand carved coins - Solid yellow bronze also called jeweler gold bronze coins. - One sided coin - The coins are about 15 mm or 9/16" - 14 k gold filled ear wire - Gold filled has 100 times more gold than platted. Does not rub off. - Nickel free