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1720 Swedish 1/2 Ore

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 Posted 06/02/2013  10:49 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add TJsCoins to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
1720 Swedish 1/2 Ore. Picked this up from a local shop:)

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 Posted 06/02/2013  12:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Joseph7420 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Nice!
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Most excellent!
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 Posted 06/03/2013  04:08 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DVCollector to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I really like the older copper coins--and that's a great example!
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 Posted 06/11/2013  08:19 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Gwyde to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Sweden has been using Rikstaler until well the 1870's. It used to be divided into Skilling (non-decimal I suppose). So probably this 1/2 öre has nothing to do with the later (and present) decimal öre = 1/100 Krona?

Can someone shed some light on this? These 18th century currencies can be quite confusing.
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Gwyde, öre is an old Swedish denomination. I've seen a 15 öre 1543. Also a 2 mark/16 öre 1543, which places the öres value to the mark. As for daler, 3½ mark was equal to 1 daler at the time. So it was 28 öre on the daler then. This changed throughout history.

Under Karl IX (1604-11) Sweden had to types of Daler. A daler was worth 4 mark, a rigsdaler was worth 6 mark. 1 mark was still 8 öre, so 1 daler = 48 öre

In 1664, 1 rigsdaler dropped to 52 öre. In 1681, to 64 öre. Then later 96 öre.

In the mid-1800s, one daler was worth four rigsdaler. And one öre was 1/100 of one rigsdaler. Then at the reform in 1873, rigsdaler was exchanged with krona.
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 Posted 06/12/2013  6:23 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Gwyde to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks, it's increasingly clear that decimal currencies were the exception rather than the rule the 19th century.
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Great coin, lots of detail and looks all original.
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Thanks for sharing! Nice coin with great details remaining.
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