1/4 Penning

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.