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1 Öre Silvermynt - Adolf Fredrik
| Issuer | Sweden |
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| Year | 1751-1768 |
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| Weight | 14.2 g |
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| Obverse description | At center, the crowned royal cypher of King Adolf Fredrik (AF) is displayed in an interlaced monogram, surmounted by a royal crown. The monogram is flanked on either side by the Three Crowns of Sweden, the traditional heraldic symbol of the realm. The overall design is rendered in a clean, restrained baroque style typical of Swedish coinage of the mid-eighteenth century. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Adolf Fredrik's copper öre issues occupied an awkward political moment: the king was largely a figurehead under the Riksdag's "Age of Liberty," and the coinage reform debates of the 1750s were driven by the competing Hat and Cap factions rather than by any royal initiative. The "Silvermynt" denomination was a holdover accounting fiction — the coin was valued against a silver standard it had no actual connection to, a legacy of Sweden's earlier plate money system that the monetary authorities refused to formally abandon.
The type ran across seventeen years with minimal modification, which makes die-year attribution the primary variable for specialists working this series.