25 Øre - Oscar II

Oscar II acceded to the Norwegian throne in 1872 following the death of his brother Karl XV, and the coinage reforms of the mid-1870s coincided almost exactly with Norway's entry into the Scandinavian Monetary Union in 1875. That agreement — between Norway, Sweden, and Denmark — pegged their respective currencies to a shared gold standard and forced a wholesale redesign of circulating silver, explaining why so many Norwegian types appear or are substantially revised in 1876.

KM#354 was struck at Kongsberg, the only mint Norway operated throughout the nineteenth century.