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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 3795016, member: 102103&quot;]I&#039;ve done a little more research and have some guesswork, but nothing definitive.&nbsp; I believe the Nazis hoped the invasion of Norway would proceed similarly to the invasion of Denmark which they started at the same time.&nbsp; Denmark gave up in 1940 without significant resistance, and king Christian X was kept on as a figurehead for the occupation government, with coins issued in his name.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Norway put up a fight for long enough for the king and government ministers to escape and form a government-in-exile based out of the UK. Norway was helped by its larger size than Denmark, the barrier of the North Sea, and mountainous terrain.&nbsp; Perhaps the Nazis hoped that Haakon VII (Christian&#039;s little brother) would also stay on as a figurehead, and didn&#039;t expect much resistance.&nbsp; The mint seems to have mostly been left to its own devices, and minted unusually large numbers of the copper 1 and 5 øre and copper-nickel 10 and 50 øre coins using the existing patterns in 1941.&nbsp; The Nazis were probably preoccupied with things like the invasion of France and then Russia, and didn&#039;t need to spend a lot of resources micromanaging Norway once it was conquered.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1013986[/ATTACH] At some point someone (perhaps from the Quisling government) noticed that it was a bad look to issue coins in the name of a king who headed an opposing government-in-exile, and they issued new coins of iron and zinc to 1) save copper and 2) remove any iconography which mentioned the king, such as his &quot;H7&quot; monogram.&nbsp; The new money used general Norwegian symbols rather than fascist iconography, such as the lion with axe from the Norway coat of arms, and the cross with two axes of St. Olaf from the Chrurch of Norway coat of arms.&nbsp; (St. Olaf was said to have been slain by an axe in a battle in 1030 while trying to Christianize and unify Norway, and the axe became a symbol of his martyrdom.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Oddly, no 1 krone coins were minted during the war, even though they were had not been made of silver since 1917, and had no special reason to be subjected to wartime hoarding.&nbsp; There&#039;s a little more on my personal coin <a href="https://wp.me/pa8Nfq-4u" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://wp.me/pa8Nfq-4u" rel="nofollow">blog</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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