A Small, But Complete, Set

bosox · January 31, 2005 2:44PM

World War II Norwegian government in exile issues. Made at the London mint. KM#391, KM#392, and KM#394. Most were melted. Less than 10,000 of each survive. They fill a previously gaping whole in my WWII set.

syraq · January 31, 2005 2:47PM

Is it brass?

bosox · January 31, 2005 2:50PM

Nickel-Brass

tbirde56 · January 31, 2005 3:04PM

NICE!

sumnom · January 31, 2005 4:51PM

Wow!

Conder101 · January 31, 2005 7:15PM

I think I have the same hole in my collection.

rhound1977 · January 31, 2005 7:28PM

They all have holes

Very nice set.....

Steve27 · January 31, 2005 8:03PM

Nice coins!!!

CoinAddict · January 31, 2005 8:05PM

Very nice set.

AuldFartte · January 31, 2005 11:31PM

Nice job assembling that set, Bosox

oldshep · January 31, 2005 11:43PM

Zowie!!!!Very nice.
Shep

XpipedreamR · February 1, 2005 12:27AM

Very neat! Did these actually get distributed to anyone as usable money, or were they like presentation pieces?

shirohniichan · February 1, 2005 5:38AM

That is totally COOL!

Did you know I have the complete set of Japanese-occupied Inner Mongolian coins from WWII? It consists of a single 5 chiao coin.

NJMark1 · February 1, 2005 7:24AM

Great Coins. If I might ask what the source was?

Mark

python · February 1, 2005 7:39AM

Very nice.

wybrit · February 1, 2005 10:16AM

Great find. Nice examples.

Askari · February 1, 2005 11:43AM

That's a wonderful find -- congratulations!!!

bosox · February 1, 2005 11:44AM

Thanks for the kind words. I don't know if these coins actually circulated, but I think they were intended for circulation. They originally made 6 million, 2.4 million, and 1.6 million of the 10, 25, and 50 ore respectively, and then they melted most of them. The mintage seems like too many coins for the few outposts that Norway had in WW2 (Jan Mayen, Spitzbergen, etc.). They also relocated quite a few folks to Canada while Quisling and the Nazis occupied the homeland, but probably not enough to justify these mintages. Maybe it was just a show of nationalism in the face of adversity. I don't know. I need to do some more research on these.

I do know that the Norwegian government took quite a hoard of gold coins with them when they left Norway. They used them to finance the government in exile and, as I recall, the resistance. If any of you ever have the chance, the Norwegian Resistance Museum in Oslo is fascinating. I highly recommend it.

I had previously bought a 10 ore and a 50 ore on e-bay. Recently I bought the entire set of the three pictured coins from a private collector. So, now I have an extra 10 ore and 50 ore. I am sending all 5 coins to PCGS, then I will likely sell the two extras.

Rob

A Small, But Complete, Set

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