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50 Öre - Oscar II
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Sweden (Kungliga Myntet) |
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| Year | 1906-1907 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1906 EB - - 319,452 1907 EB - broken bow in wreath; see comments - 1907 EB - normal bow in wreath; see comments - 803,340 |
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These two final years of Oscar II's reign coincide with the dissolution of the Swedish-Norwegian union in 1905 — a peaceful but politically wrenching separation that forced a near-immediate renegotiation of Sweden's monetary arrangements. Oscar II died in December 1907, making the 1907-dated pieces struck within months of his death. The .600 fineness reflects a deliberate reduction from earlier Swedish silver standards, adopted in 1874 as part of the Scandinavian Monetary Union's effort to harmonize coinage across Sweden, Denmark, and Norway — an irony given the union's political collapse that bookends this very issue.