1 Riksdaler - Frederick I and Ulrika Eleonora

Frederick I's riksdaler coinage of the 1730s was struck during a period when Sweden had definitively abandoned its Baltic empire ambitions following the catastrophic losses of the Great Northern War. The country was still economically convalescent, and large silver riksdalers of this decade saw limited circulation — they functioned more as instruments of state finance and international trade settlement than as everyday currency.

The dual-portrait pairing with Ulrika Eleonora, who had abdicated in Frederick's favor in 1720, was a political gesture that outlasted her death in 1741, keeping her image on coinage well into the reign as a legitimizing device. She had been the last of the Vasa line through the female branch.