1 Penning

Struck under Olaf Kyrre or his immediate successors during a period when Norwegian royal authority was still consolidating after the upheavals of the mid-eleventh century, this issue belongs to a coinage tradition heavily influenced by Anglo-Saxon penny types — a direct consequence of the English moneyers and dies imported to Scandinavian mints during this period. Skaare 61 is among the more thinly documented types in Norwegian medieval numismatics, with attribution windows spanning fifteen years precisely because mint organization and royal succession were both unstable enough to make tight dating impossible.