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1 Ducat - Charles XII Smelting of gold by O.A. Paykull
| Issuer | Stockholm Mint |
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| Year | 1706 |
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| Diameter | 22.78 mm |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of King Charles XII of Sweden facing right, portrayed with long flowing curled hair. The effigy is rendered in high relief against a flat field, displaying finely detailed drapery at the shoulder. A Latin legend encircles the portrait, reading CAROL·XII·D·G·REX·SVE·, identifying the king by name and royal title. The coin's milled border frames the composition with a continuous reeded inner rim. The overall style reflects the Baroque portrait tradition characteristic of early eighteenth-century Swedish coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | CAROL·XII· D·G·REX SVE· (Translation: Karl XII, by the Grace of God, King of the Swedes.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse bears a fully inscriptional design with no pictorial elements, the entire field occupied by five lines of bold Roman capital lettering: HOC / AVRUM / ARTE CHEMICA / CONFLAVIT / HOLMIAE A·1706, followed below by the name O·AV·PAYKULL·, and at the base a decorative floral or scroll ornament. The inscription commemorates that this gold was smelted by chemical art in Stockholm in the year 1706 by Otto Arnold von Paykull, a Swedish nobleman who claimed to have discovered a method of transmuting base metals into gold. A milled inner rim borders the legend on all sides, consistent with the obverse treatment. |
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