Norse penny
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011
setName: label: See more items in
content: Edmund Snow Carpenter papers
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content: Edmund Snow Carpenter papers / Series 2: Research and project files
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1979
label: Date
content: circa 2001-circa 2003
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2017-27, Subseries 2.8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The material in this sub-series is contained in 7 folders, labeled by Carpenter (a) through (e).
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This sub-series documents Carpenter's interest in a Norwegian Viking coin found in the 1950s at a Native American archaeological site in Maine – variously called the "Norse Penny," the "Maine Penny," and the "Goddard Coin." Carpenter published a short work on the subject in 2003, analyzing the purported provenance and discovery of the coin: Norse Penny (New York: Rock Foundation).

The bulk of the material in the sub-series consists of correspondence with archaeologists, archivists, museum curators, scholars, colleagues, and friends on the topics of the Norse Penny, numismatics, archaeology, Viking settlement and culture, and other themes. The sub-series also contains catalog records, notes, and reprints of articles.