Sterling - Erik of Pommern Lund Mint

Erik of Pommern — born Bogislaw, renamed Erik at his 1396 coronation — ruled Denmark, Norway, and Sweden simultaneously under the Kalmar Union, the first and only time a single monarch governed all three Scandinavian kingdoms from one throne. The Lund mint, located in Scania, operated within historically Danish territory that Sweden would not acquire until the 1658 Treaty of Roskilde. These sterlings belong to a period when Erik was increasingly diverting revenue toward his prolonged war against the Holstein counts over the Duchy of Schleswig, a conflict that would eventually destabilize his reign entirely and end in his deposition in 1439.