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1/4 Penning
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1170-1205 |
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| Technique | Hammered (bracteate) |
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| Obverse description | A large capital letter A rendered in relief at the center of the field, enclosed within a double concentric circle border. The letter is depicted in a bold, archaic style characteristic of 12th-century Norwegian bracteate coinage. Up to three pellets may appear to the right, left, or below the letter A, serving as differentiating marks. The overall design is struck on a thin, irregularly shaped flan with the shallow relief typical of bracteate technique. |
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| Obverse lettering | A |
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Struck under the competing royal claimants of Norway's civil war period, this fraction circulated during decades when the country was fractured between the Birkebeiner and Bagler factions. Royal minting authority was geographically fragmented, and attribution of specific issues to individual kings within the Skaare sequence often relies on findspot evidence rather than inscriptions, which on coins this small are typically fragmentary or absent entirely.