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1 Penning - Haakon VI Magnusson
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1355-1380 |
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| Value | 1 Penning |
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| Obverse description | Within a plain inner circle, a boldly struck Gothic letter or monogram occupies the central field, rendered in high relief against a flat, unadorned background. The design is characteristic of medieval Norwegian bracteate pennings, with the device struck in a single-sided impression on a thin, irregularly shaped flan. The field surrounding the central device shows the typical uneven surface associated with hand-hammered coinage of the fourteenth century. No legible legend or inscription is present on this face. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Haakon VI ruled Norway during a period of acute demographic collapse — the Black Death had killed roughly half the Norwegian population by the 1350s, devastating tax revenues and fragmenting the economy. Small silver pennings of this reign circulated in a kingdom still struggling to maintain basic fiscal infrastructure, which likely kept mintages low and survival rates lower still.