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2 Mark - Frederick I Funeral of Frederick I
| Issuer | Sweden |
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| Year | 1751 |
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| Currency | Fourth riksdaler (1719-1798) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Frederick I died in March 1751 after a reign defined more by Sweden's Age of Liberty than by the king himself — power had rested almost entirely with the Riksdag and its competing Hat and Cap factions, leaving Frederick largely ceremonial. This funeral issue was authorized as a formal commemorative, a practice the Swedish estates used selectively for monarchs and major state occasions throughout the eighteenth century.
The .694 fineness reflects Sweden's ongoing silver standard adjustments of the period, a consequence of chronic state debt accumulated through the disastrous wars of Charles XII's reign decades earlier.