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1 Penning - Magnus the Good Bird
| Issuer | Denmark |
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| Year | 1042-1047 |
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| Weight | 1.0 g |
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| Obverse description | A stylized bird depicted in profile facing left, rendered in the Ringerike or Urnes-influenced Viking decorative style with elaborate interlaced plumage and scrolling feather details. The body of the bird is composed of sinuous, interlocking curves and beaded decorative elements, characteristic of Scandinavian hammered coinage of the mid-11th century. A Latin legend commences at the 3 o'clock position and runs clockwise around the central device within a beaded border. The overall design exhibits the lively, organic artistic vocabulary typical of Danish pennings struck under Magnus the Good. |
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| Reverse description | A voided long cross extending to the coin's beaded border divides the field into four quarters, with crescent-shaped tips terminating each arm of the cross. An additional crescent motif appears in the first quarter. The intervening quadrants contain a divided Latin legend recording the moneyer's name and mint of production. The execution is characteristic of mid-11th century Danish hammered silver pennings, with the cross design deriving from Anglo-Saxon numismatic prototypes then widely employed across Scandinavia. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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