Share on
Edward Munch on the current 1,000 krone note.
Currency: Norwegian Krone
The Scream, Nobel Prize winner, bronze, silver, gold, everything for Norway.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Edvard Munch’s birth, the Norwegian artist whose pivotal masterpiece “The Scream” defined the Expressionism period. In May 2012, Munch’s grim and garish work was sold at auction for nearly $120 million, or more than 666 million NOK (Norwegian Krone, which translates to “crown” in English). As a proud parent country, Norway honored Munch by featuring his image on the 1,000-krone banknote. Along with Munch, opera singer Kirsten Flagstad, folktale writer Peter Christen Asbjornsen, scientist Kristian Birkeland, and author and Nobel Prize winner Sigrid Undset also share the honor of appearing on banknotes.
Edward Munch.
The krone was introduced in Norway in 1875 as a replacement for the Norwegian speciedaler, when Norway joined the Scandinavian Monetary Union alongside Denmark and Sweden, until the union finally dissolved in 1914.
Since the German occupation in Norway during World War II, krone coins have been struck from iron, bronze, silver, gold, cupronickel, and zinc. The 10- and 20- krone coins bear the image of the current monarch, King Harald V. Also inscribed on the 10-krone coin is King Harald’s royal and national motto Alt for Norge, “everything for Norway.”
