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200 Kronor - Carl XVI Gustaf Selma Lagerlöf
| Issuer | Sveriges Riksbank |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Stylized artistic portrait of Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf (1858–1940), rendered after a photographic reference taken at Mårbacka, her childhood home in Värmland. The effigy occupies the central field, executed in a distinctive graphic style with clean linear forms. The legend SELMA LAGERLÖF 1858-1940 appears along the upper portion of the field, while the lower area bears the mint supervisor's initials SI, the year 2008, the issuing country and denomination SVERIGE 200KR, and the mint mark E denoting the Eskilstuna Mint. The designer's initials are incused below the portrait. |
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| Obverse lettering | SELMA LAGERLÖF 1858-1940 SI 2008 SVERIGE 200KR E |
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Issued to mark the 150th anniversary of Selma Lagerlöf's birth, this coin arrived three years after Sweden had quietly retired her image from the 20-kronor banknote — a circulation note she had graced since 1991. Lagerlöf was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, receiving it in 1909, and the first woman elected to the Swedish Academy.
The .925 silver composition aligns with Sveriges Riksbank's collector series standard of the period, struck in limited numbers for the commemorative market rather than circulation. KM#925 is among the cleaner assignments in the sequence.