100 Kroner - Harald V Dissolution of the Union

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.