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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;svessien, post: 7426773, member: 15481&quot;]What’s fun about the 1 skilling 1816, is that that plus the 8 skilling 1817 were the only Norwegian coins minted by Carl XIII. This happened in a time when Norway was in transition between Danish and Swedish government, after the wars of Napoleon, who got the support of Denmark. Losing the war, Denmark had to hand over Norway to Sweden. During this transition, a group of 112 men gathered at Eidsvoll to create a constitution for Norway. This constitution was the beginning of Norwegian independence in 1905. Read the full story here:</p><p><a href="https://eidsvoll1814.no/en/the-story-of-1814-in-123" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://eidsvoll1814.no/en/the-story-of-1814-in-123" rel="nofollow">https://eidsvoll1814.no/en/the-story-of-1814-in-123</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1289399[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1289410[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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