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.
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.