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5 Cent - Oscar I Pattern strike
| Issuer | Sweden |
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| Year | 1844 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse lettering | OSCAR SVERIGES NORR. GÖTH.O.VEND.KONUNG. (Translation: Oscar King of Sweden, Norway, the Goths and the Wends.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Oscar I had been king for less than a year when this pattern was struck in 1844, part of an abortive attempt to rationalize Swedish coinage toward a decimal system decades before the country actually achieved one. Sweden would not adopt decimal currency until 1855, and the "cent" denomination proposed here was never issued for circulation — the riksdaler banco system limped on in its fractional complexity for another decade.