1 Krone - Oscar II

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.