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1 Penning
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1080-1095 |
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| Reference(s) | Skaare#40 |
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| Reverse description | A double-lined cross occupies the centre of the reverse, enclosed within a solid inner ring. A circular legend surrounds the ring, recording the name of the mint master in abbreviated or partially corrupted Latin lettering, a common convention on Norwegian medieval pennies of this period. |
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| Reverse lettering | DORBORSTOIIIOII (Translation: Thorbjørn) |
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Struck under Olaf Kyrre, Norway's first truly "peaceful" king — a ruler who reigned for over two decades without fighting a single war, an extraordinary record for an 11th-century Norse monarch. His coinage reform broke significantly from the crude imitative Anglo-Saxon penny types his predecessors favored, though die-cutting quality remained inconsistent across the series. Skaare 40 is among the more systematically documented of Kyrre's issues, but surviving examples are rare by any measure; Norway's northern climate and limited urban coin use meant these circulated hard and buried poorly.