2 Skilling - Frederik V Pattern strike

Pattern strikes for Frederik V's Norwegian coinage were produced in 1747 as presentation pieces, almost certainly intended for court approval or royal gifting rather than circulation trials. Norway was then under Danish crown rule, and the Kongsberg mint operated under tight oversight from Copenhagen — any new coinage design required formal sanction before production could proceed.

Hede 3A is among the rarest documented Norwegian pattern issues of the 18th century. The gold striking of what was conceived as a base-metal skilling denomination is itself the point: gold patterns were prestige objects, not monetary proposals.