1/3 Speciedaler - Christian VII

By 1803, Norway had been in a currency union with Denmark for over a century, and the speciedaler system itself dated to a 1713 monetary reform that had standardized Scandinavian coinage following the ruinous expenditures of the Great Northern War. Christian VII was king in name only by this point — declared legally incompetent in 1784, real power had passed to his son, the Crown Prince Frederik, who governed as regent. The Kongsberg mint struck this fractional issue under that regency.

Kongsberg's silver came directly from the Kongsberg mines, one of the few European mints of the period with an integrated domestic silver supply.