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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.