Norwegian rigsdaler

Five Rigsdaler Courant (1807), first year paper currency was re-introduced to Norway.
Five Rigsdaler Courant (1807), first year paper currency was re-introduced to Norway.

The rigsdaler specie was a unit of silver currency used in Norway from 1544, renamed as the speciedaler in 1816 and used until 1873. Norway used a common reichsthaler currency system shared with Denmark, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein until 1873 when the gold standard was implemented in Scandinavia and the German Empire.