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20 Kroner - Harald V Niels Henrik Abel
| Issuer | Royal Norwegian Mint (Den Kongelige Mynt) |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Thickness | 2.2 mm |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed portrait of King Harald V facing right in high relief, rendered in a contemporary, naturalistic style. The royal legend HARALD V · NORGES KONGE curves along the upper periphery, while the date 2002 is inscribed at the bottom of the field, flanked by the mint mark and mintmaster's initials MF. A small crossed-hammers privy mark appears to the lower left of the effigy. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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This coin was struck to commemorate the bicentennial of Niels Henrik Abel's birth. Abel was born in 1802 and died in 1829 at twenty-six, leaving behind work on elliptic functions and his proof of the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation by radicals — a problem that had occupied mathematicians for over two centuries. The Norwegian government had previously honored him on the 500-krone note.
In 2002, Norway also inaugurated the Abel Prize, an international mathematics award modeled on the Nobel, funded in part through the bicentennial anniversary push.