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2 Kronor - Gustaf VI Adolf
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Sweden |
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| Year | 1952-1966 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed left-facing effigy of King Gustaf VI Adolf rendered in a bold, modernist style with finely detailed hair. The obverse legend GUSTAF VI ADOLF SVERIGES KONUNG (Gustaf VI Adolf King of Sweden) runs along the upper and lower periphery. A crowned royal monogram appears at the top of the field between the two segments of the legend. The mintmaster's initial appears in the lower field beneath the portrait. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Sweden's postwar silver coinage faced a slow death by inflation. The 2 Kronor denomination had carried .800 fine silver through the interwar years, but the 1952 reform slashed silver content to .400 — a pragmatic response to rising metal prices that effectively halved the intrinsic value overnight. Gustaf VI Adolf, who ascended in 1950, never saw a full-weight silver 2 Kronor struck in his name. The .400 standard itself survived only until 1966, when the denomination was discontinued entirely ahead of Sweden's decimalization and currency reform of 1971.