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1 Penning - Harald Hardråde With inner rings on both sides
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1047-1066 |
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| Reference(s) | Skaare#14a, Schive#II:25, II:26 |
| Obverse description | Central triquetra motif enclosed within a beaded inner circle, surrounded by a circular legend in uncial Latin characters that is largely illegible due to crude striking. A beaded ring runs along the coin's outer rim. The triquetra, a three-lobed interlace symbol of Norse and early Christian iconographic tradition, may appear in simple or detailed form depending on the variety, and certain specimens bear an additional symbol — such as a crescent, cross, single dot, or multiple dots — placed adjacent to the triquetra in the field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Harald Sigurdsson — Harald Hardråde — spent nearly a decade as a Varangian Guard officer in Byzantium before seizing the Norwegian throne in 1046, and that eastern experience almost certainly shaped the monetary conventions he brought home. Norwegian coinage in this period borrowed heavily from Anglo-Saxon penny types, filtered through Scandinavian imitation workshops whose dies were often cut by craftsmen with no direct English training. The inner ring on both faces is a detail that appears on several Hardråde types and helps distinguish them within Skaare's classification, though the varieties blur at worn grades.