1/4 Penning

Norway's coinage in the early thirteenth century was produced under conditions that make attribution deeply uncertain — thin, irregularly shaped bracteate-style pieces struck at multiple sites with inconsistent supervision. Skaare 211 falls within the long reign of Haakon Haakonsson (1217–1263), whose reign saw the first serious effort to systematize Norwegian minting after decades of civil war between rival factions known as the Birkebeiner and Baglers had left the monetary supply fragmented and regionally inconsistent.

The quarter penning denomination was among the smallest units struck, intended for petty transactions in a largely agricultural economy with limited coin penetration outside towns.