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2 Öre - Charles XII
| Issuer | Stockholm Mint |
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| Year | 1716-1717 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Three Swedish crowns arranged in the traditional heraldic formation — two above and one below — fill the central field, referencing the arms of the Kingdom of Sweden. The date '17 17' is divided and placed to the left and right of the upper two crowns, while the denomination '2. ÖR.' appears below the lower crown, and the mintmaster's initials 'LC' are inscribed at the very base of the field. The design is set within a plain or lightly toothed border. |
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Charles XII struck these during the desperate final decade of his reign, when Sweden's treasury had been gutted by the Great Northern War. The billon alloy — barely under half silver — was a deliberate debasement, part of a broader emergency coinage policy that also produced the notorious copper "emergency coins" (nödmynt) of the same period. Sweden's creditors and trading partners noticed immediately.
The Stockholm Mint operated under severe material constraints in 1716–17, with silver supplies diverted to war financing.