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1/4 Skilling - Carl XIV Johan
| Issuer | Sweden |
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| Year | 1832-1833 |
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| Weight | 4.3 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of King Carl XIV Johan facing right, with flowing curly hair and a ribbon bow at the truncation. The effigy is rendered in a neoclassical portrait style with fine relief detail. A circular raised border frames the design. The circumferential legend reads CARL XIV SVERIGES NORR.G.O.V.KONUNG, divided by the portrait, meaning Carl XIV King of Sweden, Norway, the Goths and the Wends. |
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| Obverse lettering | CARL XIV SVERIGES NORR.G.O.V.KONUNG (Translation: Carl XIV King of Sweden, Norway, the Goths and the Wends) |
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Carl XIV Johan — born Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, a French general under Napoleon — became King of Sweden through one of the more improbable dynastic appointments in European history, elected crown prince in 1810 by a Riksdag desperate for a competent military successor. By the time this fraction was struck in the early 1830s, he had ruled for over a decade and Sweden had not fought a war since 1814. Small copper fractions like this saw brutal attrition in everyday commerce, making problem-free survivors harder to source than the mintage figures alone would suggest.