A Small, But Complete, Set

bosox

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

Is it brass?

bosox

Nickel-Brass

tbirde56

NICE!

sumnom

Wow!

Conder101

I think I have the same hole in my collection.

rhound1977

They all have holes Very nice set.....

Steve27

Nice coins!!!

CoinAddict

Very nice set.

AuldFartte

Nice job assembling that set, Bosox

oldshep

Zowie!!!!Very nice.
Shep

XpipedreamR

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

shirohniichan

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

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

Mark

python

Very nice.

wybrit

Great find. Nice examples.

Askari

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

bosox

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 They originally made 6 million, 2.4 million, and 1.6 million of the 10, 25, and 50 ore respectively, and then they melted most of them.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