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1000 Kronor - Carl XVI Gustaf Death of Gustav III
| Issuer | Sveriges Riksbank |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped bust of King Gustav III, depicted in 18th-century court dress with lace jabot and ruffled collar, rendered in high relief with finely engraved hair detail in the period style. The portrait occupies the central field, with the commemorative legend arching around the upper periphery. A beaded border frames the entire design. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUSTAV III 1792 - 1992 |
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Gustav III was shot at a masked ball at the Royal Opera House in Stockholm on 16 March 1792, dying thirteen days later — exactly two centuries before this coin was issued. The assassination, orchestrated by disaffected nobility who resented his autocratic consolidation of royal power, became one of the most dramatized events in Swedish history, later inspiring Verdi's opera Un ballo in maschera.
The .900 gold specification places this squarely in Sweden's commemorative bullion program of the early 1990s, which favored smaller-format high-gold pieces over the heavier issues common to the previous decade.