1 Fyrk - Gustav Vasa Type X

Gustav Vasa's fyrk coinage of the late 1520s and early 1530s was produced during the chaotic monetary reorganization that followed Sweden's break from the Kalmar Union and the Crown's seizure of Church assets. The billon content reflects deliberate debasement — the Crown was cash-poor, fighting residual Danish pressure, and financing a nascent state bureaucracy simultaneously.

MB#34 is among the more loosely struck of the fyrk types, a consequence of provincial mint conditions rather than any single facility's failure.