50 Europ Ceros

The "Europ Ceros" inscription on Norwegian coins of this period reflects the legal requirement under EU coinage regulations adopted by non-eurozone EEA members to mark token coinage with a standardized European designation — Norway, outside the eurozone but bound by EEA monetary directives, struck these in Nordic Gold, the copper-aluminum-zinc-tin alloy developed by Nordic countries in the early 1990s specifically to resist counterfeiting and vending machine fraud.