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1 Speciedaler - Carl XV

Issuer Royal Norwegian Mint (Den Kongelige Mynt)
Year 1861-1862
Type Standard circulation coin
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Obverse script Latin
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Mint Royal Norwegian Mint (Den Kongelige Mynt), Kongsberg, Norway (1686-date)
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Carl XV inherited a kingdom still adjusting to the 1814 constitution that had ended Danish rule and created the Swedish-Norwegian union, and his specie coinage for Norway was struck separately from his Swedish issues — a deliberate concession to Norwegian political identity that had been a persistent source of friction since the union's founding. The speciedaler itself was already a doomed denomination by this point; Norway would abandon it entirely in 1875 when the Scandinavian Monetary Union brought the krone system into force.

The Ahlström 1B designation distinguishes this from the 1A obverse die, a detail that matters to specialists assembling date runs of this short two-year issue.

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