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1 Penning - Harald Hardråde
| Issuer | Kingdom of Norway |
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| Year | 1047-1066 |
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| Reference(s) | Skaare#9 |
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| Obverse lettering | ARA R (Translation: King Harald) |
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| Mintage | ND (1047-1066) |
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Harald Sigurdsson — Harald Hardråde — seized the Norwegian throne in 1046 after two decades as a mercenary commander, most notably in the Byzantine Varangian Guard where he accumulated enough wealth to fund his own kingship. His coin issues drew directly on Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian minting practices, a consequence of Norwegian dependence on English die-cutters and moneyers throughout this period. The imitation is close enough that attribution disputes between Norwegian and Danish issues of the 1050s remain unresolved in several collection catalogs.
Harald died at Stamford Bridge in September 1066, three weeks before Hastings.