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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.