NORWAY Piastre (Medal) 1977/1777 Only 400 pcs. Struck! PCGS SP66

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1977/1777, Norway. Silver "Piastre" Medal. Only 400 pcs. Struck! PCGS SP-66!

Mint Year: 1977
Reference: Trosdahl#282a.
Mint Place: Kongsberg, Norway.
Condition: Certified and graded by PCGS as SP-66!
Mintage: 400 pcs. (this being No. 18 as marked on the edge).
Denomination: Piastre (Medal) - Numismatic Conference in Kongsberg 1977.
Material: Silver (.925)
Diameter: 40mm
Weight: 29gm

Obverse: Royal crown on two globes with arms of Denmark and Norway, flanked by crowned pillars with entwinned banner (PLUS - ULTRA). Below the pillars and arms is a mound with three banners in representation of the Danish Islands (Iceland, Greenland, Faroe).
Legend: GLORIA · EX · AMORE · PATRIÆ + 1777 +

Reverse: Arms of Norway (rampart lion with circular within with circular helbard) above the top of a mining mountain with privy mark of the Kongsberg mint (crossed hammers) and three alchemistic symbols for copper, silver and platinum.
Legend: NUMISMATISK LANDSKONFERANSE KONGSBERG · / O.N.F - 1977



The Denmark 1777 Piastre, popularly known as the "Greenland Dollar," is a highly coveted and exceptionally rare trade coin. Minted by the Danish Asiatic Company at the Norwegian mint in Kongsberg, it was never meant to circulate in Europe or Greenland, but rather to facilitate lucrative tea and porcelain trade with the Orient.

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