10 Kronor - Carl XVI Gustaf

Nordic gold — the alloy developed by Scandinavian mints in the early 1990s — was adopted partly to frustrate counterfeiters and partly because its warm color allowed Sweden to maintain the visual continuity of a gold-toned coin without the cost or political difficulty of actual gold. The 10 kronor had been a silver coin for much of the twentieth century; this version marked a definitive break from that tradition.

The series ran through Sweden's prolonged debate over euro adoption, a referendum Sweden rejected in 2003.