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1 Gyllen - Gustav Vasa Coronation of Gustav Vasa
| Issuer | Sweden |
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| Year | 1528 |
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| Value | 1 Gyllen |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A crowned quartered coat of arms of Sweden, incorporating the three crowns and the lion passant fields, with the Vasa sheaf arms displayed on an escutcheon at center. The heraldic shield is set behind an ornate cross decorated with floral or foliate terminals, all contained within a beaded inner circle. The arrangement presents a dignified, symmetrical heraldic composition characteristic of early Vasa-era Swedish coinage. A Latin mint legend encircles the design along the outer rim. |
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Gustav Vasa was crowned King of Sweden on June 6, 1523, ending the Kalmar Union and terminating Danish dominance over Sweden following the Stockholm Bloodbath of 1520, in which Christian II had executed scores of Swedish nobles and clergy. The 1528 gyllen — struck five years after the coronation it commemorates — was not a contemporary issue but a retrospective one, produced as Vasa consolidated power and began dismantling the Catholic Church in Sweden to seize its assets, a process that financed much of his early reign.
The Dav EC I reference places this firmly within the broader category of early Scandinavian crown-sized silver, a series with notoriously irregular planchet preparation. Survivors in any grade above Fine are genuinely uncommon.