5 Aurar - Christian X

Iceland used Danish coinage until 1922, when the newly sovereign state began issuing its own currency — though it remained under the Danish crown, and Christian X appeared on Icelandic coins just as he did on Danish ones. These bronze pieces were struck at the Copenhagen Mint, an arrangement that reflected the awkward constitutional reality of a country that was nominally independent but still sharing a king and, for a time, a mint.

Production continued through 1942, well into the British and later American occupation of Iceland following the German invasion of Denmark in April 1940.