1/4 Penning

Norway's coin output in the late twelfth century was among the thinnest and most irregular in northern Europe — these bracteate-influenced fractions were struck at a handful of episcopal and royal mints whose output varied wildly in weight and fabric. At 0.03 g, this piece sits at the absolute lower boundary of what hand-hammering could consistently produce in silver, and many examples from this series show off-center or incomplete strikes as a direct consequence.

The Skaare 143 attribution places this within the reign of Sverre Sigurdsson or his immediate predecessors, a period of near-continuous civil war between the Birkebeiner and Bagler factions that severely disrupted mint operations across the kingdom.