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⅛ Riksdaler Specie Pattern
| Issuer | Sweden |
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| Year | 1844-1845 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | Plain field bearing the fractional denomination numeral '1/8' incused or in relief at center, rendered in simple upright numerals without surrounding legend or decorative motifs. The field is unadorned, consistent with the trial or pattern nature of the piece, and exhibits a flat, lightly finished surface characteristic of mid-19th century Swedish mint trials. |
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| Reverse description | Completely blank, unadorned field with no devices, legends, or decorative elements, consistent with the uniface or incomplete pattern character of this trial piece struck at the Stockholm Mint during the 1844–1845 period. |
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These pieces were struck as patterns during the deliberations that preceded Sweden's 1855 coinage reform, when the Riksdag was weighing a rationalized decimal system against the existing specie standard. The ⅛ riksdaler denomination itself was ultimately abandoned — the reform that finally arrived settled on a different divisional structure entirely, leaving these silver trials without a production successor.