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1000 Talets Sigtuna
| Issuer | Sigtuna Municipality |
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| Year | 1961 |
| Type | Local coin |
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| Obverse lettering | 1000 TALET SIGTUNA |
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| Reverse lettering | SCEUT AELFRIC SNELLING ULFCENTEL LEOFMAN GODWINE THREGR (Translation: MSS) |
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Sigtuna, on the northern shore of Lake Mälaren, was founded around 980 AD and is generally considered Sweden's oldest surviving town. The 1961 issue marked roughly a thousand years of continuous settlement — a milestone Swedish municipalities occasionally commemorated through locally issued tokens or medals rather than through the national mint at Eskilstuna. This piece circulated as a local trade token within Sigtuna itself, a practice that had largely disappeared from Scandinavian municipal life by the mid-twentieth century, making the 1961 issue a late and somewhat anachronistic example of the form.