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1 Öre Silvermynt - Frederick I

Issuer Sweden
Year 1730-1750
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Value 1 Öre (1⁄96)
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Obverse lettering FF
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Frederick I ruled Sweden as a constitutional monarch under the constraints imposed by the Riksdag following the collapse of Charles XII's absolutism — the 1720 Form of Government had stripped the crown of nearly all executive power. The small copper öre issues of his reign were produced under that parliamentary regime, known to Swedish historians as the Age of Liberty, when fiscal and monetary decisions rested with competing noble factions rather than the king himself.

The "Silvermynt" denomination is a bookkeeping artifact: copper coins were officially valued against a silver standard despite containing none, a legacy of Sweden's chronic silver shortage and the parallel plate money system that had distorted Swedish currency for over a century.

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