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1 Penning
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1065-1080 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | A double-lined cross occupies the central field, with a pellet at the intersection of the arms. The cross divides the field into four quarters and is surrounded by an entangled or degenerate legend encircling the design, consistent with the crude inscriptional style typical of Norwegian pennies struck under Harald Hardrada or Olaf Kyrre. |
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| Mintage | ND (1065-1080) |
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Struck under Olav Kyrre, whose reign after the catastrophic Norwegian defeat at Stamford Bridge in 1066 marked a deliberate pivot away from Viking-age expansionism toward continental European political norms. Kyrre's coinage reform drew heavily on Anglo-Saxon penny types, a direct consequence of Norway's long monetary entanglement with England — Norwegian mints had been producing Anglo-Saxon-influenced coins since the reign of Olav Haraldsson decades earlier.
Skaare 22 is among the more precisely attributed types from this reign, though die-linking across Kyrre's issues remains an active area of study given the limited number of surviving specimens.