1 Örtug - Albert of Mecklenburg

Albert of Mecklenburg seized the Swedish throne in 1364 with the backing of disaffected Swedish nobles who resented Magnus Eriksson, and his coinage reflects the administrative disorder of a foreign king governing a hostile realm. His örtug issues were struck across multiple mints and survive in enough die varieties to fill a specialist monograph — the Lagerqvist and Myntbok reference ranges alone hint at the complexity. Attributing individual pieces to specific mints or phases of the reign remains genuinely difficult, and specialists still disagree on the sequencing.