Norwegian skilling coinage

Norwegian skilling coinage comprised the fractional metallic currency used in Norway during the periods of the rigsdaler specie and the speciedaler, preceding the adoption of the krone. Following the Napoleonic Wars, Norway maintained this 120-skilling standard even after its union with Sweden, retaining the division when the specie unit was renamed the speciedaler in 1816.

The underlying currency system operated in Norway from 1544 until 1873. While Denmark departed from the shared arrangement following the Napoleonic Wars to adopt a lower-valued rigsdaler, Norway preserved the system. In 1816, earlier coins continued in circulation, with only the 1 skilling piece being minted. The skilling era concluded in 1873 with the implementation of the gold standard across Scandinavia, which led to the creation of the Scandinavian Monetary Union and the replacement of the speciedaler by the krone at a rate of one speciedaler to four kroner.

During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, skilling coins were issued in denominations of 1, 2, 4, 8, and 24 skilling. A revised coin series introduced in 1819 included copper 1 and 2 skilling pieces alongside silver 8 and 24 skilling denominations. Later additions to the circulating series included silver 2 and 4 skilling coins in 1825, copper 1⁄2 skilling pieces in 1839, silver 12 skilling pieces in 1845, and silver 3 skilling pieces in 1868, alongside coinage struck in iron.