PLEASE HELP **found rare viking era coin from Sweden discovery** near Seattle

[Intrigued]

ok so I found this coin about 6 months ago, literally just walking through a parking lot near downtown Seattle, WA. (definitley far far from this coins origin) I bent down to pick it up, thought it looked a bit unique, maybe from the middle east or something, but figured it was just some cool coin that a coin collector had dropped. So I did some research on it for 6 months and found NOTHING. Then finally I discover its origin. Check out this link... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080408-viking-hoard.html....There's my coin! There are images below...the red background is my actual coin I have, the other images (ones in groups) are the images I found on the web via google images to identify my coin. Can anyone tell me more about this coin? How about its value? Not just face value, but its worth... It's very intrigueing to me, I've learned alot about early Vikings and their intrusion on Sweden because of it.

Any info would be much appreciated!

 

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[sasnz]

The size of the coin and some decent pictures will help.

 

[CRUSADER]

You are right to say Scandinavian (Viking) Era (9th-11th Century) coin. Problem is that its fundamentally an arab Dirhem coin which they used as trading silver, together with large amounts of cut silver items. These coins run into the millions & unless found in a Viking context, the likelihood of a Viking ever touching this one is slim to none. Although, I guess a US collector may have brought it from a supposed Viking Hoard but its impossible to tell. If it were holed or bent & broken in half this could add weight to it being traded but at the end of the day its a Eastern coin & not a Viking coin.

Value without provenance is very little - $30