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1 Penning
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1065-1080 |
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| Reference(s) | Skaare#36 |
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| Reverse description | A double-lined cross at centre, enclosed within a solid inner ring, dividing the field into four quadrants in a style common to Anglo-Scandinavian penny types of the period. A peripheral legend in Latin characters surrounds the inner ring, rendered largely illegible due to the irregular flan and variable striking pressure inherent in hammered coinage of this era. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Struck under Harald Hardrada's successor Olaf Kyrre, whose long and relatively peaceful reign from 1067 to 1093 marked a deliberate break from the aggressive military culture of his father. Olaf consolidated Norwegian coinage production and is credited with founding Bergen. The Skaare 36 type belongs to a period when Norwegian pennies were struck at weights and standards loosely tracking Anglo-Saxon practice — a direct consequence of generations of Norse-English monetary entanglement dating to the Danelaw.