2000 Kronor - Carl XIV Gustaf Dag Hammarskjöld

Issued to mark the centenary of Hammarskjöld's birth, this gold piece commemorates the only person ever awarded the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously — he died in a plane crash near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia in September 1961, en route to negotiate a ceasefire in the Katanga crisis. The circumstances of that crash have never been definitively resolved, with a UN investigation as recently as 2019 leaving open the possibility of foul play.

Sweden has long treated Hammarskjöld as its most consequential international figure, and Sveriges Riksbank reserved gold for the issue — unusual for a commemorative in a country that had abandoned precious-metal circulation coinage decades earlier.