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1/2 Penning
| Issuer | Kingdom of Norway |
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| Year | 1105-1130 |
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| Weight | 0.18 g |
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| Obverse description | Crude hammered bracteate design struck on a thin, irregularly shaped silver flan. The obverse presents a schematic figural motif, likely a crowned or helmeted bust or enthroned figure, rendered in the rudimentary Romanesque style characteristic of early twelfth-century Norwegian coinage. Relief details are weakly defined due to the bracteate technique, with elements of the design showing through on the reverse as incuse impressions. The field is uneven and the design fills the flan without a formal border or legend. |
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| Edge | Plain (irregular) |
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Skaare 77 falls within the coinage attributed to Sigurd Jorsalfar, whose reign produced some of the most irregular and poorly documented issues of medieval Norwegian numismatics. These coins were struck by hand using rudimentary dies with no meaningful weight standard enforced — the 0.18g figure represents a midpoint across a wide scatter. Norway's monetary system in this period was functionally barter-supplemented, and these tiny silver pieces likely moved more as bullion fragments than as counted currency.