10 Ducats - Frederick I Type I

Frederick I of Sweden spent most of his reign as a figurehead king under a constitution that stripped the crown of nearly all executive power — the so-called Age of Liberty, during which the Riksdag governed in practice. Multiple-ducat presentation pieces like this one were not struck for circulation but served as diplomatic gifts and court presentation pieces, a tradition the Swedish mint maintained even as the monarchy's actual authority contracted. The 1731 date falls squarely in that period.

Fr#62 is among the rarer Swedish gold multiples of the era, with surviving examples concentrated in a handful of Scandinavian institutional collections.