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5 Öre - Oscar I Pattern strike, Type I
| Issuer | Stockholm Mint |
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| Year | 1853-1854 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays the denomination 5 ÖRE in large bold numerals and letters, flanked on either side by a Swedish royal crown, with two crossed arrows below — a traditional Swedish heraldic device. The central design is enclosed within a beaded inner border. The outer legend, running around the full circumference, reads PROF-MYNT · 95 D. KOPPAR 4 D. TENN 1 D. ZINK · 5 ÖRE, with the additional inscription 200 Rd. AF 100 U. in the lower field, specifying the alloy composition and monetary equivalence of this trial piece. The overall layout is functional and typographic, consistent with the utilitarian character of a metallurgical pattern strike. |
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Oscar I came to the Swedish throne in 1844 with genuine ambitions for monetary reform, and the pattern strikes of the early 1850s were part of a broader push to rationalize the riksdaler system before it was ultimately decimated coinage was standardized. This Type I designation distinguishes it from later pattern iterations produced during the same trial period, suggesting the mint worked through at least two distinct design or specification approaches before the circulating type was settled.
The copper-tin-zinc alloy used here mirrors the contemporary skilling banco coinage rather than the later pure copper adopted for circulating öre pieces after the 1855 reform.