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1 Penning Anonymous
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1065-1080 |
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| Reference(s) | Schive#II:29 |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Produced during the reign of Olaf Kyrre, Norway's longest-ruling medieval king, this anonymous penning belongs to a coinage tradition deliberately stripped of royal identification — a practice common in Scandinavian minting when royal authority over coinage was still being consolidated against the competing interests of bishops and local moneyers. Schive's classification places it within a sequence where die workmanship varies considerably, and attribution to specific mints remains contested among Scandinavian numismatists.
Olaf Kyrre's reign saw Norway's first permanent episcopal sees established at Bergen and Nidaros.