10 Öre - Gustaf VI Adolf Silver pattern

Sweden's postwar coinage reform debated silver's place in everyday circulation throughout the early 1950s. This pattern was struck in 1952 as part of that evaluation — the Riksbank ultimately abandoned silver for the 10 öre denomination, opting instead for the copper-nickel alloy introduced with the 1962 coinage reform. Surviving pattern pieces from this deliberation are genuinely scarce; most were never released and remained in institutional hands.