NORWAY, 1 krone, 1954

Description

Scarce in uncirculated.

Norway, for most of the last millennium, has been an occupied territory in thrall to Sweden. There is a patriotic element in the coin market. People might collect one country or the other, rarely or never both.

By “Modern World Coins” we mean here, generally, the round, flat, shiny metal objects that people have used for money and still do. “Modern,” though, varies by location. There was some other way they were doing their economies, and then they switched over to “modern coins,” then they went toward paper money, now we’re all going toward digital, a future in which kids look at a coin and say “What’s that?” We’ll say: “We used to use those to buy things.” Kids will ask “How?” The main catalog reference is the Standard Catalog of World Coins, to which the KM numbers refer.