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My friend has a collection of these coins they are numbered from 1-10 and have similar markings. the story goes when he was a child in sweeden he and his friends found them, what we do know is that they were used as currency.

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Other than the number and letter are their any other markings, hall mark, date, ect...? Are they all the same size and weight? I'm thinking that it might be a coin weight rather than a coin.
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The coins are all the same weight. And the markings are all the same accept the roman numerals. He only let me take 1 home so I took the one with the clearest markings.on BACK2.jpg there seems to be a "stamp" that is circular. and please forgive my terminology I am not a coin guy. I have also e-mailed the photos to the museum in sweeden, again any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated.... OHH the coin is SOLID brass he thought it was from 15th century or around there but I dont know why he would think that.

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Sweden did make copper "plate money" (platmynt in Swedish), in the early 1600's; it normally looks like this, with five round denomination stamps in the centre and corners. Sweden issued these large copper "coins" because they owned a large supply of copper, but virtually no silver or gold. These platmynt therefore served as "copper bullion"; the theory was that the platmynt were deposited in the bank, and a banknote (one of the earliest banknotes in Europe) would be issued to circulate in it's place. The system didn't work (people didn't trust the paper money, which was easily counterfeited) and the playmynt were melted down and sold for scrap.

However, while your items look superficially similar, they're not officially issued platmynt. What they actually might be, I can't say for sure. If they're numbered from 1 to 10 but they're all the same size and weight, then the numbers can't be a "denomination". I suspect they may have been some kind of worker's check or tally token, used in a small factory. Or perhaps game pieces of some kind, sort of like metallic playing cards.
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counterstamped parts of platmynts were used in Swedish-Russian war as payment for Swedisch army as far as Poland until Ukraine, large IIII is regimental number. Intrinsic value 1 daler silver.
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