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1/2 Speciedaler - Carl XV
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1865 |
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| Engraver(s) | Balthazar Jacobson |
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| Reverse description | The central field displays the crowned royal arms of Norway within an ornate cartouche, flanked on either side by the denomination expressed as 1/2. A wreath of laurel and oak branches frames the shield. Below the shield, crossed mining hammers divide the four digits of the date 18-65, referencing Norway's mining heritage. The inscription ST.1 MK.FS. 1/2 SP= appears within the design indicating the coin's weight and value equivalences. The whole composition is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Mint | Kongsberg Mint |
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Carl XV was a popular king in both Sweden and Norway but wielded little real power — constitutional reforms had already shifted authority firmly toward elected ministers by the 1860s. The speciedaler itself was on borrowed time; Norway abandoned the species standard and joined the Scandinavian Monetary Union in 1875, rendering the entire denomination obsolete within a decade of this issue.