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1 Penning - Harald Hardråde
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1047-1066 |
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| Currency | Penning (995-1387) |
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| Reverse description | A double-lined cross divides the field into four quarters, enclosed within a beaded or plain inner circle. Three pellets (dots) appear in the upper-left quarter and three pellets in the lower-right quarter, a distinctive arrangement serving as a mint or die identifier. Surrounding the central cross device, a runic legend names the mint master responsible for striking the coin at Hamar. |
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| Mint | Hamar |
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Harald Sigurdsson — Harald Hardråde — came to the Norwegian throne in 1047 after two decades as a mercenary commander in Kievan Rus and the Byzantine Varangian Guard, where he accumulated enough wealth to buy his way into co-kingship with Magnus the Good. His coinage was struck in direct imitation of contemporary Anglo-Saxon pennies, reflecting both the technical superiority of English moneyers and Harald's own ambitions toward the English crown — ambitions he pursued until Stamford Bridge in September 1066.
Skaare 8 is among the rarest Norwegian issues of the eleventh century, with surviving specimens numbered in the single digits.