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½ Penning - Anonymous
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1103-1130 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Frontal crowned royal effigy depicted in schematic, highly stylized medieval fashion, the figure shown facing with a sceptre held in the left hand. The bust is rendered in a primitive but vigorous manner characteristic of early Norwegian hammered coinage, with globular pellets indicating facial features and crown ornaments. The field is plain and unlettered, the flan irregular and slightly scalloped at the rim as is typical of this early period. |
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| Mintage | ND (1103-1130) - 2 known |
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Produced during the reign of Sigurd I Jorsalfar — "the Crusader" — whose extended absence on the First Norwegian Crusade of 1107–1110 left the kingdom under uncertain governance and coinage in the hands of moneyers whose identities were deliberately suppressed. The anonymous attribution was not unusual for the period; Norwegian royal coinage of this era rarely carried unambiguous regal identifiers, and attribution to specific reigns often depends on hoard evidence and die-linkage studies rather than inscriptions.
Skaare 69 is among the lighter fractions of the medieval Norwegian series. Hoards from this period frequently show these pieces clipped or pierced.