1/4 Penning

Norwegian royal coinage of the 1260s was produced under Håkon Håkonsson's son Magnus Lagabøte ("the Lawmender"), whose reign brought systematic legal reform and, with it, greater administrative coherence to the mint at Bergen. The quarter penning — the smallest denomination struck — circulated in a monetizing economy still heavily reliant on barter and weighed silver, making small-denomination coins like this politically deliberate rather than economically inevitable.

Skaare 226 is among the more elusive varieties documented in Kolbjørn Skaare's foundational 1976 corpus of Norwegian medieval coinage.