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1 Hvid - Gaute Ivarsson
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Nidaros (Norway) |
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| Year | 1474-1510 |
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| Reference(s) | Schive#XIV:34 |
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| Reverse lettering | HOn ETA nOR WEI (Translation: Money of Norway.) |
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| Mintage | ND (1474-1510) |
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Gaute Ivarsson served as Archbishop of Nidaros from 1474 until his death in 1510, the longest episcopate of any medieval Norwegian archbishop. The hvid was a small-denomination silver struck across Scandinavian ecclesiastical and royal mints from roughly the mid-fifteenth century — the name derives from the Low German word for "white," a reference to the pale silver wash applied to billon issues. Nidaros, seated at Trondheim, held the right to strike coin as a privilege of the archiepiscopal see, one of only a handful of ecclesiastical minting authorities in the medieval Norwegian realm.
Schive XIV:34 is among the thinner-documented entries in Norwegian medieval numismatics, with surviving examples rare enough that die studies remain incomplete.