1 Öre - Gustav Vasa Västerås mint, type III

Gustav Vasa introduced the öre denomination in the late 1520s partly to fund the ongoing consolidation of his reign following the 1523 break from the Kalmar Union, and partly to address a chronic shortage of small transactional coinage that had plagued Swedish commerce for decades. The Västerås mint was one of several provincial operations activated during this period precisely because Stockholm alone could not meet demand. Type III distinguishes itself from earlier variants through specific die characteristics catalogued under MB#29,2 — collectors working this series must treat the type designations seriously, as superficially similar pieces from Västerås can belong to entirely different emission sequences.