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20 Kroner - Harald V Leif Ericson
| Issuer | Royal Norwegian Mint (Den Kongelige Mynt) |
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| Year | 1999 |
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| Diameter | 27 mm |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing effigy of King Harald V of Norway rendered in high relief with finely detailed hair, occupying the upper portion of the obverse field. The portrait is separated from the lower legend panel by a raised horizontal line. The engraver's monogram 'NA' appears to the lower left of the truncation. The two-line legend 'HARALD V / NORGES KONGE' (Harald V, King of Norway) is inscribed in bold serif capitals within the lower segment of the coin. |
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| Obverse lettering | NAA HARALD V NORGES KONGE (Translation: NAA HARALD V KING OF MORWAY) |
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This coin was issued to mark the millennium anniversary of Leif Ericson's voyage to North America — a landfall Norse sagas place around 1000 AD, roughly five centuries before Columbus. Norway had lobbied the United States Congress for decades on the question of priority, ultimately succeeding in 1964 when President Johnson signed a joint resolution designating October 9th as Leif Erikson Day, a date chosen because Norwegian immigrants had landed in New York on that day in 1825.
The Royal Norwegian Mint operated at Kongsberg from 1686 until production ceased there in 1997, just two years before this piece was struck.