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1 Hvid - Hans Bergen
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1483-1513 |
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| Value | 1 Hvid (⅓) |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, a crowned royal monogram of King Hans (Johan/Hans) displayed within a shield occupies the central field. The monogram is rendered in Gothic style typical of late medieval Scandinavian coinage. A circular Latin legend in uncial lettering surrounds the inner beaded ring, with a second beaded ring forming the outermost border of the coin. The overall style is characteristic of late 15th- to early 16th-century Norwegian hammered silver coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | h + IOhAnES D G REX nOR (Translation: Hans, by Gods grace, King of Norway.) |
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Hans of Denmark — who ruled Norway as a subordinate kingdom — issued this small silver coin through the Bergen mint during a reign marked by repeated conflict with the Hanseatic League, which itself controlled much of Bergen's commercial infrastructure at the time. The irony of a royal mint operating in a city where the Kontor effectively ran the waterfront was not lost on contemporaries.
The multiple catalog references reflect genuine scholarly disagreement over die attribution and chronology within this thirty-year span — Galster's two separate UU numbers alone suggest distinct emission phases that remain incompletely resolved.