1 Gyllen - Gustav Vasa Coronation of Gustav Vasa

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.