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1/2 Penning
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1130-1150 |
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| Currency | Penning (995-1387) |
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| Reverse description | Bracteate type; the reverse is an incuse mirror impression of the obverse design, showing the combined Latin and saltire cross with club-ended arms as a recessed relief, characteristic of thin hammered bracteate coinage of medieval Scandinavia. |
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| Mintage | ND (1130-1150) |
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Norway's coinage in the mid-twelfth century was among the thinnest and most irregularly produced in northern Europe — bracteate-influenced, struck on crudely cut flans with dies that rarely centered properly. Skaare 94 falls within the reign of either Inge I or one of the competing claimants during a period of near-constant civil war between rival royal factions, making precise attribution to a single issuer genuinely difficult. These fractional pieces circulated alongside hacked silver and weight-measured bullion in a monetary environment where coin identity mattered less than metal content.