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1/2 Penning
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1105-1130 |
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| Reference(s) | Skaare#79 |
| Obverse description | A stylized bird facing right, rendered in the Romanesque decorative tradition characteristic of Norwegian medieval coinage. The bird is depicted with a prominent crested head adorned with three globular finials, a large circular eye, and a strongly curved beak. The body is shown in profile with schematically rendered wings and tail feathers indicated by parallel incised lines, while the plumage is suggested through bold, sweeping curved striations extending to the left of the field. The design fills the irregular flan in a vigorous, abstracted manner typical of Hiberno-Norse bracteate penny coinage of the early twelfth century. |
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| Mintage | ND (1105-1130) |
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Struck under Sigurd Jorsalfar, whose reign coincided with Norway's most active period of crusading engagement, these small silver fractions were produced at a time when Norwegian coinage was technically rudimentary — flans irregular, dies hand-cut, weight standards loosely observed. Skaare's cataloging of this type drew heavily on hoard evidence, as surviving examples outside major Scandinavian collections are genuinely rare.
The fraction itself reflects a monetary system still borrowing conceptual framework from Anglo-Saxon penny traditions introduced generations earlier under Olaf Haraldsson.