3 Daler Silvermynt - Charles XII

Sweden's emergency copper plate money — the klippings and plåtmynt — existed because the country had almost no domestic silver supply, forcing the Crown to monetize its abundant copper reserves. The 3 Daler plates were the workhorse denomination of this system, physically enormous slabs that circulated by weight rather than by the fiction of face value. By 1710, Charles XII was deep in the catastrophic aftermath of Poltava, and military expenditure had so strained the treasury that these plates were increasingly overvalued relative to their copper content.

Dies for this issue were produced at the Avesta mint, the sole facility equipped to strike pieces of this mass.