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1 Penning
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1065-1080 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Crude stylized bust of the king facing right, rendered in the debased Romanesque manner typical of late Viking-Age Norwegian coinage. The effigy is composed of bold, angular lines with a pronounced crescent or diadem above the head, a schematic facial feature indicated by a pellet, and a sceptre or cross-tipped staff extending before the bust. Pellets are scattered in the field to the left of the bust. The whole is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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Struck under Olav Kyrre, whose long and unusually peaceful reign — roughly 1067 to 1093 — marked a sharp departure from the Viking-age instability that preceded it. Norwegian silver coinage of this period drew heavily on Anglo-Saxon penny types, a direct consequence of English moneyers working at Norwegian mints, likely brought over following the Norman Conquest of 1066, which disrupted established English minting networks.
Brekke 5.12 places this among the earlier issues of the reign, before the coinage was progressively debased in both weight and silver content through subsequent emissions.