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1⁄48 Thaler - Charles XI

Issuer Pomerania, Swedish dominion of
Year 1661-1694
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Currency Thaler (1630-1815)
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Swedish Pomerania occupied an awkward administrative position throughout Charles XI's reign — a German territory governed from Stockholm, its coinage obligations split between Swedish imperial ambitions and the demands of local German commerce. The 1/48 Thaler denomination was essentially a concession to that commercial reality, sized to circulate alongside the small-change coinage of neighboring Brandenburg and Mecklenburg rather than integrate cleanly into Sweden's riksdaler system.

Charles XI's regency period ended in 1672, and the subsequent reduction war of 1675–79 saw Pomerania briefly occupied by Brandenburg before being restored to Sweden at the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye — largely through French diplomatic pressure rather than Swedish military success. Coins of this type struck across that occupation gap are difficult to attribute precisely by year.

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