"German archeologists have discovered 1,200-year-old silver coins of Arabic origin buried in a northern German field, bearing evidence that the Slavs who inhabited the land were part of an ancient global trade route, academics said on Sunday.
Amateur archaeologist Peter Dachner, who found the first engraved coin near the town of Anklam, described it as a "masterpiece of design." He is one of a team of volunteers, working with regional authorities and the University of Greifswald.
By scouring the area with metal detectors, they discovered 82 coins and coin fragments, a silver armband and three bars of silver, in a plot of land measuring 20 by 25 metres."
The image above depicts a coin from roughly that time period of Islamic Silver, perhaps from the Umayyad Dynasty?
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