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1 Hvid - Gaute Ivarsson
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Nidaros |
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| Year | 1474-1510 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse lettering | HOn | ETA | nOR | WEG (Translation: Money of Norway) |
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Gaute Ivarsson served as Archbishop of Nidaros from 1474 until his death in 1510, making him the longest-serving archbishop of the see in the pre-Reformation period. His tenure coincided with a prolonged struggle between Danish royal authority and ecclesiastical independence in Norway — a tension that shaped the very decision to issue independent archiepiscopal coinage at Nidaros rather than rely solely on crown-issued currency.
Thesen 12 is among the scarcer attributed types of this archbishop's output. The hvid denomination was the workhorse of small Nordic commerce in the late fifteenth century.