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Norwegian royal coinage of the thirteenth century was produced in conditions that make consistent attribution genuinely difficult. The bracteate and fractional issues of this period were struck under a succession of competing kings — Håkon Håkonsson's long reign (1217–1263) being the dominant political force — but output from regional minting sites was irregular and poorly documented. Skaare's cataloguing work remains the primary scholarly framework for sorting these issues, and even he acknowledged significant uncertainty in dating sequences within this span.