1 Riksdaler - Frederick I Type V

Frederick I of Sweden ruled in name only for much of his reign — real power resided with the Riksdag and the competing Hat and Cap factions whose parliamentary struggles defined Swedish politics from the 1730s onward. The Type V riksdaler falls squarely within the Hat party's final years of dominance, a period marked by costly military adventurism against Russia that had already drained Swedish finances severely by mid-century.

The .878 fineness places this issue within the established riksdaler standard that Sweden maintained with relative consistency even under fiscal strain — a deliberate policy choice to preserve international trade credibility when domestic politics were anything but stable. Frederick died in March 1751, making the 1751-dated strikes his last coinage.