10th-12th century AD. A silver neck-ring with round-section shank of coiled facetted rods, each end forged to a square-section flange flaring to a scrolled finial. See Hårdh, B., Silver in the Viking Age. A Regional-Economic Study, Acta Archaeologica Lundensia no.25, Stockholm, 1996, chapter 4. 76 grams, 13cm (5"). Ex Dutch art market; formerly in the Van de Berg collection, 1980s-2000s. The scrolled flange finials are not typical of Viking period Scandinavian finds and may reflect an origin in the southern Baltic region or further south along the River Volga. The ring is light for a Scandinavian example, although finds weighing between 50 and 100 grams are common in southern Scandinavia and in the Slavonic regions bordering the Baltic (i.e. modern western Poland"). In Finland and elsewhere in the eastern Baltic, silver neck rings were often coiled tightly beyond usable dimensions for a collar and then used as a form of currency in tribute payments and, to a limited degree, in commercial transactions. [No Reserve]