(sold for $5.0)

1820, Kingdom of Norway, Charles  XIV John.  Copper 1 Skilling Species Coin. aVF!

Mint Years: 1820 Reference: KM-286. Condition: About VF! Denomination: 1 Skilling Species Material: Copper Weight: 12.11gm Diameter: 26mm

Obverse: Crowned shield with arms of Norway, flanked by Ruler´s initials (CXIV L:.-Joh.).

Reverse: Value numeral (*1*) above denomination (SKILLING SPECIES), date (1820.) and privy mark (crossed hammers).

Charles XIV John or Carl John, (Swedish and Norwegian: Karl XIV Johan; 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844) from 1818 until his death was King of Sweden (as Charles XIV John) and King of Norway (proclaimed as Charles XIV John, but in recent times referred to as Charles III John) and served as de facto regent and head of state from 1810 to 1818. He was also the sovereign Prince of Pontecorvo, in south-central Italy, from 1806 until 1810.

He was born Jean Bernadotte  in France and served a long career in the French Army. He subsequently acquired the full name of Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte. He was appointed as a Marshal of France by Napoleon, though the two had a turbulent relationship. Napoleon made him Prince of Pontecorvo on 5 June 1806, but he stopped using that title in 1810 when his service to France ended and he was elected the heir-presumptive to the childless King Charles XIII of Sweden. His candidacy was advocated by Baron Carl Otto Mörner, a Swedish courtier and obscure member of the Riksdag of the Estates. Upon his Swedish adoption, he assumed the name Carl. Since he was a royal prince there, he did not use the surname of Bernadotte in Sweden, but founded the Swedish dynasty by that name.