1820 Coin

[Guest John]

Copper Coin, a little larger that an american quarter kind of like a slug for a car wash. On the front top Center is a crown underneath the crown is a shield that pretty much takes up the whole coin to the left of the shield looks to be the letters CV, to the right on the shield it looks like Jon.

On the Back of the coin

1 at the top

Killing species in the middle

2 hammers crossing eachother at the bottom

If you know what this may be let me know.

johngalek@hotmail.com

[smudge 0]

Could be a token, any chance of posting a picture? You have to register to post.

[kuhli 0]

It is a Norwegian 1 skilling.

Information from : 1996 Standard Catalog of World Coin, by Chester Krause and Clifford Mischler.

Norway

KM#286

1 skilling (120 skilling = 1 speciedaler)

mintage of 3,817,000 including coins dated both 1819 and 1820

catalog value is US$3.00 in VG, US$7.00 in F.

To the left it should be a larger C with XIV within it, to the right should be Joh. This is the monogram for the Swedish king Carl XIV Johan.

Norway was under Danish rule until 1814, when if fell under Swedish rule until independence in 1905.