One of a Pair of Gold Earrings, 550–650, Avar, Gold, 2 3/16 × 7/8 × 13/16 in., 0 Troy Ounces ( × × cm, 16g

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One of a Pair of Gold Earrings, 550–650, Avar, Gold, 2 3/16 × 7/8 × 13/16 in., 0 Troy Ounces ( × × cm, 16g), Metalwork-Gold, In the 500s and early 600s, when the Avars were regularly receiving enormous payments from the Byzantine Empire, virtually all free men and women wore distinctive large earrings fashioned from the pure gold of melted Byzantine coins

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