50 Öre - Oscar II

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.