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4 Skilling Banco - Oscar I Pattern strike
| Issuer | Sweden |
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| Year | 1844 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Reverse lettering | PROJECT 4 PENNING SKILLING BANCO 1844 (Translation: Project-coin) |
| Edge | Reeded or Plain (two varieties known) |
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Oscar I ascended the Swedish throne in March 1844, and this pattern was struck the same year — almost certainly as part of the new king's currency evaluation process, a routine but politically charged exercise whenever a monarch changed. Sweden's parallel monetary system of the period, running riksdaler riksgäld alongside riksdaler banco, created persistent administrative headaches, and the Banco denominations were under active scrutiny for rationalization throughout the 1840s. The reform that eventually killed the skilling banco came in 1855.
The dual KM pattern references suggest at least two distinct strikings or die pairings were recorded, a detail worth pursuing against the SM#148 attribution before committing to a variety attribution.