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1/4 Penning
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1270-1320 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Crowned royal bust facing, with long flowing hair, depicted in a frontal orientation. The effigy is enclosed within a beaded inner ring, upon which five small rings are evenly distributed. The style is characteristic of Norwegian medieval hammered coinage of the late 13th to early 14th century, with a flat, bracteate-like execution and simplified regal iconography. |
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| Mintage | ND (1270-1320) |
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Norwegian quarter-penning issues of this period fall within the reign of Håkon V Magnusson, who restructured the kingdom's monetary administration and established Oslo as the capital in 1299. Coinage from this stretch is notoriously difficult to attribute with precision — many pieces circulated alongside older types, and wear patterns on surviving examples frequently obscure the mint indicators that specialists rely on for dating within the fifty-year window.
Skaare 267 represents one of the smaller denominational fractions of medieval Scandinavian silver, struck at a time when Norwegian minting activity was consolidating away from Bergen.