Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Themes & Provenance| ▸ |Numismatics| ▸ |Hacksilver||View Options: ![]() ![]() Hacksilver or hacksilber, is ancient silver disks, bars, rods, foil, and broken and cut fragments of those forms and also of coins, jewelry or other silver items used as a medium of exchange by weight. It was common in trade beginning at the end of the Iron Age, c. 1200 B.C. in the Levant, and lasted until the first century B.C., were it was used by the Celts and other tribal people in Hispania and Gaul. It was used again in the Middle Ages by the Vikings. For more information, see our Hacksilver page in NumisWiki. |