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1 Daler Silvermynt - Charles XII Apollo
| Issuer | Sweden |
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| Year | 1718 |
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| Currency | Third riksdaler (1715-1719) |
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| Obverse description | Standing figure of Apollo (Phoebus), the sun god, depicted in classical attire within a radiant solar glory composed of alternating long and short rays forming a circular halo. Apollo holds a sceptre topped with a small sunburst in his left hand and a laurel branch in his right. The legend PHOEBVS arcs across the upper field in Latin capitals, while the date 1718 appears in the exergue below a horizontal ground line. The coin's outer rim is defined by a fine milled border. |
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| Reverse description | The denomination I. DALER / S.M (Silvermynt) inscribed in three lines within a plain oval circle, surmounted by a royal crown above the circle. The entire central device is enclosed within an ornate wreath of laurel and floral branches tied at the base, with the crown incorporated into the wreath at the top. The outer rim is defined by a milled border consistent with the obverse. |
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Charles XII's emergency copper "plate money" tokens of 1718 were a fiscal improvisation born of prolonged war — Sweden's treasury was effectively bankrupt after nearly two decades of the Great Northern War, and silver had long since vanished from circulation. The Apollo series was struck in copper and assigned the face value of silver dalers, a transparent fiction that the Swedish public was given little choice but to accept.
Charles XII died at the siege of Fredriksten in November 1718, and the emergency coinage program collapsed with him. Most of these tokens saw hard use in a desperate economy.