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1 Ducat - Carl XIII without 'NORR'
| Issuer | Royal Swedish Mint |
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| Year | 1810-1814 |
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| Value | 1 Ducat (2) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed right-facing bust of King Carl XIII occupying the majority of the obverse field, rendered in high relief with finely detailed flowing curled hair falling to the shoulder. The king's features are rendered in a classical Neoclassical style. The circumferential legend reads CARL XIII SVERIGES G. OCH V. KONUNG, distributed along the periphery from lower left to lower right, separated by a beaded inner border and a reeded rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | CARL XIII SVERIGES G. OCH V. KONUNG (Translation: Carl XIII King of Sweden, of the Goths and the Wends) |
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Carl XIII ascended the Swedish throne in 1809 following the forced abdication of Gustav IV Adolf after Sweden's disastrous loss of Finland to Russia. The omission of 'NORR' from the legend — truncating the standard royal titulature that included sovereignty over northern territories — almost certainly reflects the political humiliation of that territorial loss, though the exact decision to alter the die legend was never formally documented in Riksbank correspondence that has survived.
The Fr#81 designation places this squarely in the Friedberg gold ducat series. Mintages across the 1810–1814 window were modest, consistent with wartime fiscal strain.