1 Penning - Sverre Sigurdsson

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.