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1 Riksdaler Specie - Carl XIV Johan
| Issuer | Sweden |
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| Year | 1831-1842 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#632, Dav ECT#352 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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Carl XIV Johan — born Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, a French marshal under Napoleon — became King of Sweden through one of the more improbable dynastic accidents of the nineteenth century, elected crown prince by the Swedish Riksdag in 1810 after the last Vasa heir died without issue. He never learned Swedish fluently. The riksdaler specie was the highest-denomination circulating silver coin of the realm during his reign, and the .750 fineness reflects a deliberate reduction from the purer earlier specie standard — a fiscal compromise tied to the chronic monetary pressures Sweden carried out of the Napoleonic period.