Replica - 2 Skilling 1642

Produced in 1930 as a deliberate replica of the 1642 two skilling issued under Christian IV, whose personal union of Denmark and Norway made him the dominant Scandinavian monarch of the early seventeenth century. The original 1642 issue was struck at a time when Norwegian minting was still closely supervised from Copenhagen, with domestic production quality varying considerably across the Christiania and Kongsberg facilities.

Replicas of this type were typically produced for the collector and souvenir market during a period of strong Norwegian interest in pre-union numismatic history.