Adverse:
Fridtjof Nansen, scientist, politician and humanitarian. Organized relief to Russia in the 1920's and became Commissioner of Refugees for the League of Nations, with the right to issue the so-called Nansen passports giving some means of identity to stateless refugees and enabling them to travel.

Reverse:
Fisheries scene from the Lofoten, after a painting by Axel Revold.

Adverse:
Christian Michelsen, ship owner and politician. Was Prime Minister on June 7th 1905 when the Storting (Norwegian Parliament) voted to dissolve the union with Sweden.

Reverse:
Mercury, and a shipping scene after a painting by Henrik Sørensen.

Adverse:
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, poet and author, and active participant in society. Politically active, though not a politician. His poetry and novels are both nationalistic and romantic.

Reverse:
Harvesting scene after a painting by Hugo Louis Mohr.

Adverse:
Henrik Wergeland, poet and Norway's first head of the National Archives. Very nationalistic and in opposition to the Swedish king. A founder of the celebration of May 17th, the Norwegian National Day (which does not celebrate Norwegian independence in 1905 but the Norwegian Constitution of 1814).

Reverse:
Timber floating scene after a painting by Erik Wærenskiold.

Adverse:
Niels Henrik Abel, mathematician whose theories are still used and studied and is fundamental to much of modern mathematics.

Reverse:
Industrial scene after a painting by Reidar Aulie.

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Adverse:
Henrik Ibsen, playwright and poet whose plays still are being played all over the world.

Reverse:
"History", painting by Edvard Munch.