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1/2 Penning
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1150-1170 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by an archbishop's crozier rendered as an inward-curling spiral. Surrounding the spiral is a beaded inner ring, with a series of small pellets distributed around the periphery of the field. The design is executed in low relief characteristic of Norwegian bracteate coinage of the mid-twelfth century. The overall composition is contained within an irregular, roughly circular flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Struck under Inge I Haraldsson ("Inge Krokrygg" — Inge the Hunchback), whose reign was defined by near-constant civil war between rival Norwegian kingship factions. Royal minting in twelfth-century Norway was fragmented across multiple workshops with inconsistent output, and attribution of specific types to particular reigns remains contested; Skaare's assignment of this type to Inge I rests on die-linkage analysis rather than documentary evidence.