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100 Kroner - Harald V Dissolution of the Union
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 2004 |
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| Diameter | 39 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | An offshore oil drilling platform is depicted in the upper left quadrant of the field, rendered in a stylized, partially visible composition emerging from the upper edge, evoking its scale against an expansive open sea. The lower portion of the reverse features a finely detailed horizontal seascape with subtle wave texturing occupying the majority of the field. The commemorative date range 1905–2005 and the denomination 100 KR are inscribed in the lower exergual area, flanked by the engraver's initials HD and MF, with the Royal Norwegian Mint mark below. |
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Issued to mark the centenary of Norway's peaceful dissolution of its union with Sweden in 1905, this coin commemorates one of the few separations in European history accomplished without armed conflict. The union, forced on Norway after the Napoleonic Wars by the Congress of Vienna, had rankled Norwegian nationalists for nearly a century. When the Storting unilaterally declared dissolution in June 1905, Sweden initially mobilized troops along the border before a negotiated settlement — the Karlstad Convention — averted war that autumn.
KM#474 was struck at the Royal Norwegian Mint in Kongsberg, which closed permanently just two years later in 2006.