1 Penning

Struck under Harald Hardrada's successor Olaf Kyrre, whose long and relatively peaceful reign from 1067 to 1093 marked a deliberate break from the aggressive military culture of his father. Olaf consolidated Norwegian coinage production and is credited with founding Bergen. The Skaare 36 type belongs to a period when Norwegian pennies were struck at weights and standards loosely tracking Anglo-Saxon practice — a direct consequence of generations of Norse-English monetary entanglement dating to the Danelaw.