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1/2 Penning
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1170-1205 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | A single-sided bracteate design featuring an axe oriented to the right, contained within two concentric rings: an inner solid ring and an outer ring composed of beading. The axe is rendered in a stylized, flat relief characteristic of medieval Norwegian hammered coinage. The surrounding fields are plain, with no legend or inscription. |
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| Mintage | ND (1170-1205) |
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Struck under Sverre Sigurdsson, whose reign was defined by civil war against the Baglers — a church-backed faction opposing his rule. Norway's coinage in this period was fragmented across multiple competing mints, and attribution of specific bracteate and thin-flan issues to precise reigns remains contested among Scandinavian numismatists. Skaare's classification provides the most accepted framework, though die studies continue to revise the picture.