1500 Kroner - Harald V Dissolution of the Union

Issued to mark the centennial of Norway's peaceful dissolution from its union with Sweden in 1905, this coin commemorates one of the few instances in modern European history where a political union ended without armed conflict. The Norwegian Storting unilaterally declared the union dissolved on June 7th, 1905, a move Sweden initially contested before accepting following a Norwegian referendum in August of that year — in which 368,208 voted for dissolution against just 184 opposed.

KM#473 was struck in a limited proof issue, with gold coinage of this denomination being an infrequent instrument of Norges Bank's commemorative program.