Coin, Scandinavia

The origin of Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish coinages is clearly the result of the Danish conquest of England. The Runic alphabet was employed, though not by any means exclusively, on many early coins of Denmark and Norway. The Norwegian series began with Haakon the Great (c. 970 - 995), who copied the pennies of Ethelred II. In the second half of the 11th century, a coinage of small, thin