50 Kronor - Carl XVI Gustaf Royal Wedding

Sweden's parliament had stripped the monarchy of nearly all remaining political authority just one year before this coin was issued, under the 1974 Instrument of Government that reduced the king to a ceremonial figurehead. The wedding of Carl XVI Gustaf and Silvia Sommerlath in June 1976 offered the Riksbank a rare occasion for a commemorative silver issue — the first royal wedding coin in Swedish modern coinage.

Sommerlath was a West German national, which generated genuine public debate at the time about a foreign queen consort.