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1/4 Penning
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1170-1205 |
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| Currency | Penning (995-1387) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Incuse mirror image of the obverse type, featuring the capital letter E with a pellet, enclosed within a double concentric circle, as characteristic of the hammered bracteate-influenced technique used for this small Norwegian fractional denomination. The relief is shallow and the flan irregular at the edges. |
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Struck during the reign of Sverre Sigurdsson, whose claim to the Norwegian throne triggered a civil conflict that consumed the kingdom for decades. Sverre's moneyers worked under conditions of political instability severe enough that coin production was irregular and output low — which accounts for the extreme rarity of surviving specimens across all denominations from this period. Skaare 131 is among the smallest fractional issues of medieval Scandinavia, produced at a time when Norway lacked a stable royal mint infrastructure in any modern sense.