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1 Penning - Sverre Sigurdsson
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1177-1202 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Crowned royal effigy facing forward, depicted in a frontal bust style within an inner ring. A Latin legend is inscribed in the annular field between the inner ring and a secondary beaded or linear ring at the rim, encircling the effigy. The style is characteristic of medieval Norwegian hammered coinage, with a schematic, stylized rendering typical of the late 12th century. |
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| Obverse lettering | + REX SVERVS MAGNVS (Translation: King Sverre Magnus) |
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Sverre Sigurdsson seized the Norwegian throne through civil war against the Baglers, a church-backed faction supporting rival claimants. His reign was marked by near-constant conflict, and his coinage reflects the economic strain — these pennies are among the lightest silver issues in the medieval Norwegian sequence, suggesting deliberate debasement or simple resource scarcity during wartime. Skaare 115 is a fragile type, and surviving examples are almost universally irregular in flan shape due to the primitive hand-cutting methods used at Norwegian mints of the period.