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25 Øre - Haakon VII WW2 German Occupation
| Issuer | Norway |
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| Year | 1943-1945 |
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| Value | 25 Øre (0.25 NOK) |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 ØRE 19 45 |
| Edge | Plain |
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Norway's zinc coinage of this period was struck at Oslo under German occupation authority, which had shuttered the country's silver supply for wartime use. The cadmium trace in the alloy was a practical stabilizer against zinc pest — a crystalline corrosion that destroys the metal from within — a persistent problem with wartime zinc coinages across occupied Europe. Haakon VII himself was in exile in London, making these coins a peculiar artifact: nominally bearing the image of a king whose government had fled and whose return the occupiers were actively preventing.