Gold holdings of Norway

The gold holdings of Norway (Norwegian Bokmål: Norges gullbeholdning, Norges gullreserver), also known as Norway's gold reserves, were a formally defined entity related to Norges Bank's foreign-exchange reserves as well as the physical quantity of gold owned by the same central bank.

3.3 tonnes) are Norwegian 10-crown and 20-crown coins of the 19th and early 20th century, produced at the Mint in Kongsberg, while the others (approx.

[2] In April 1940, when Norway was invaded by Nazi Germany, the gold reserves included 48.8[1] or 60 tonnes.

During the morning hours of 9 April, 818 boxes of 40 kilograms each, 685 boxes of 25 kg each, and 39 barrels of 80 kg each (a total of 53 tonnes of gold, of which 48.8 tonnes were in the form of bars) were brought out of Oslo parallel with the capital city's being invaded.

From 1940 to 1945, the gold holdings funded both the exiled King and Government as well as the resistance movement.