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| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays a heraldic shield depicting a fortified castle or city gate with three towers above and an arched gateway below, rendered in high relief. The shield occupies the majority of the coin's central area and is surrounded by a raised inner border. A circular legend reading 'PRØBE' repeated six times, separated by asterisks, runs along the outer ring in Latin script. The date '2004' appears in the lower exergual area beneath the shield, within the legend band. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Nordic gold — the copper-aluminum-zinc-tin alloy developed by Swedish company Nordic Mint in the 1990s — was adopted across EU coinage specifically because it resists discoloration and is effectively impossible to plate convincingly, a direct response to widespread counterfeiting of brass-alloy coins. Norway, not an EU member, independently adopted the alloy for its euro-cent-sized denominations around the same period.