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200 Kronor - Carl XVI Gustaf Dag Hammarskjöld
| Issuer | Sveriges Riksbank |
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| Year | 2005 |
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| Value | 200 Kronor |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a stylized design of upward-sweeping flames occupying the central field, evoking the themes of light and aspiration associated with Dag Hammarskjöld's writings. A legend drawn from Hammarskjöld's interpretation of Saint-John Perse's Chronique curves around the upper and lateral portions of the design. The denomination 200 KRONOR is inscribed in the lower field. The mint mark letter E (for Eskilstuna) appears to the left of the flames, and the letter H — the initial of the Riksbank Governor's surname — appears to the right. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Issued to mark the centenary of Hammarskjöld's birth, this coin commemorates the only person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously — awarded in 1961 after his death in a plane crash over Northern Rhodesia while on a UN ceasefire mission to the Congo. The circumstances of that crash have never been conclusively resolved; a UN investigation reopened in 2019 found credible evidence the aircraft may have been intercepted or attacked.
Sweden struck relatively few commemorative silver 200-kronor pieces across the Carl XVI Gustaf series, and the Hammarskjöld issue was produced in limited quantity for collector distribution rather than circulation.