Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Penning
| Issuer | Norway |
|---|---|
| Year | 1080-1095 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Penning |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Crude effigy of a crowned or helmeted royal bust facing left, wearing a pointed helmet and holding a sceptre. The portrait is rendered in a schematic, early medieval style typical of Norwegian hammered coinage of the late 11th century. A partially legible or wholly unreadable inscription runs above or around the bust in the field. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Struck under Olaf Kyrre, whose reign brought an unusual period of domestic peace following the turbulent Norwegian kingships of the mid-eleventh century. Kyrre abandoned the Viking practice of raiding and instead oriented Norway toward continental European trade networks, which directly necessitated a more standardized coinage. These small silver pennies circulated alongside English and German imports, and the Norwegian issues of this period show clear stylistic borrowing from Anglo-Saxon penny types — unsurprising given the persistent English influence on Scandinavian minting practice since the time of Cnut.