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1 Daler - Johan III
| Issuer | Sweden |
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| Year | 1569-1592 |
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| Currency | Daler (1534-1593) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | SALVATOR*MVNDI | SALVA*NOS 15 | 76 (Translation: Savior of the World, save us) |
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Johan III's daler issues coincide with a reign defined by chronic financial strain and his costly ambitions in the Baltic, where Sweden was locked in the Livonian War against a shifting coalition that included Russia, Poland-Lithuania, and Denmark. The crown's silver came largely from German trade networks rather than domestic mines, making consistent bullion supply a recurring problem. Production across the 1569–1592 span was accordingly irregular.
The .875 fineness places these squarely within the standard of the Holy Roman Empire's Reichsthaler — a deliberate alignment meant to facilitate trade with the German Hanseatic ports on which Swedish commerce depended.