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1 Krone - Oscar II
| Issuer | Royal Norwegian Mint (Den Kongelige Mynt) |
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| Year | 1877-1904 |
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| Composition | Silver (.800) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King Oscar II facing left, with full beard and flowing hair, engraved in high relief after the work of Lea Ahlborn. The portrait is rendered in a classical naturalistic style, occupying the central field. A circular legend runs along the upper periphery reading OSCAR II NORGES O. SVER. KONGE, and a secondary motto BRODERFOLKENES VEL curves along the lower periphery, both separated by five-pointed stars. The entire design is bounded by a fine beaded border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Oscar II, a Swedish king ruling Norway under the union crown, faced persistent Norwegian pressure to assert a distinct national identity through its coinage. The krone series introduced in 1875 was itself a product of the Scandinavian Monetary Union, which tied Norway, Sweden, and Denmark to a shared decimal standard — a rare moment of Nordic monetary cooperation that survived until World War I effectively dismantled it.
The 1905 dissolution of the Swedish-Norwegian union ended this type's production abruptly. Kongsberg struck the final pieces just as the political crisis was reaching its peak.