1/2 Penning

Struck under Sigurd I ("Jorsalfar"), Norway's crusading king, during a period when Scandinavian coinage was among the thinnest and most irregular produced anywhere in Europe. These bracteate-influenced pennies were cut or broken deliberately to make change — half-pennings were not always minted as such but sometimes literally halved in hand.

Skaare 86 places this type within the Oslo-area workshops, though attribution of twelfth-century Norwegian coins to specific mints remains contested given the near-total absence of documentary mint records from the period.