1/4 Penning - Eirik Magnusson

Eirik Magnusson came to the Norwegian throne at roughly ten years old in 1280, with the realm governed by a regency council dominated by the high nobility — the same aristocratic faction that had just secured the Sættargjerdet agreement granting the Church sweeping privileges. The fractional penning issues of this regency period are among the smallest silver coins produced in medieval Scandinavia, struck at a time when Norway's minting infrastructure was thin and output highly irregular. Brekke 28.5 is not a common attribution.