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Encyclopedia > Norwegian coins

Norwegian coins are in 2003 circulated, in addition to Norwegian banknotes, as the standard unit of currency in Norway, the Norwegian krone.



Norwegian coins currently in use:

  • 50 øre
  • 1 krone
  • 5 kroner
  • 10 kroner
  • 20 kroner

Norwegian coins previously in use:

  • 1 øre
  • 2 øre
  • 10 øre
  • 25 øre


For detailed information (Bank of Norway):


http://www.norgesbank.no/english/notes_and_coins/coins.html


  Results from FactBites:
 
Vikings in Norway make their own Coins (760 words)
Among several thousands of coins of foreign prototype we find only three which with absolute certainty may be referred to as Norwegian: They are three pennies from Olav Haraldsson and which all were part of a hoard found at Stein in Hole in Ringerike (Norway).
In the latter half of his reign the Norwegian king obviously has decided that minted silver was to be mixed with copper.
During the intense striking of the inferior coins from the Haraldsslætten inflation the coin-images are being altered and "barbarized".
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