Denier Bracteate - Magnus IV Ericson

Magnus IV — known to posterity as Magnus Eriksson — ruled a combined Swedish-Norwegian kingdom and briefly held Scania, though his reign unraveled through a combination of financial overextension, plague, and baronial revolt. The Black Death struck Scandinavia hard beginning in 1350, collapsing tax revenues and forcing the crown into debt with the Hanseatic League. These bracteates, struck during the embattled final decade of his Swedish reign, circulated in an economy under genuine stress. He was ultimately deposed by his own nobility in 1363 in favor of Albert of Mecklenburg.