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12 Skilling - Oscar I
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1845-1856 |
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| Value | 12 Skilling (0.1) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | OSCAR NORGES SV.G.OG V.KONGE. * RET OG SANDHED. * (Translation: OSCAR KING OF NORWAY, SWEDEN, GOTHS AND WENDS * JUSTICE AND TRUTH. *) |
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Oscar I came to the Norwegian throne in 1844, and this skilling denomination sat at an awkward transitional moment — Norway was still operating a currency system rooted in the speciedaler, a holdover from Danish monetary administration that predated the 1814 separation. The 12 skilling represented exactly 3/16 of a speciedaler, a fraction that made practical sense in daily commerce but would be swept aside entirely when Scandinavia moved toward decimal coinage in the following decades.
The series ran eleven years before being discontinued as monetary reform gathered momentum across the region, ultimately culminating in the Scandinavian Monetary Union of 1873.