1/2 Penning

Produced during the reign of Inge I Haraldsson (Inge the Hunchback), this diminutive fractional issue belongs to a period of chronic civil strife in Norway, when rival claimants fought intermittently for the throne across several decades. Royal minting authority was fragile and geographically inconsistent, which accounts for the significant typological variation seen across Norwegian coinage of this period. Skaare's classification draws on hoard evidence more than documentary sources — written records from twelfth-century Norwegian mints are essentially nonexistent.