Swedish, 1 Ã-re KM, With 2 Dates.

That's interesting--it looks like two dates! I only have a few Swedish coins from this period--And my catalog doesn't go this early. I hope somebody here has more information.

That's because it's a 1720 1 Ã-re, minted in Avesta in Sweden. It says in my Swedish 950-2000 catalog that these coins were weakly "shadow-minted" because of overstrike. The date 1718 on the reverse shouldn't be there at all. None of these Ã-re's has got the date on that side of the coin. Only under the three crowns on the obverse. There was 1719 and 1720's made in two places in Sweden, Stockholm and Avesta. The ones from Stockholm with these 2 dates has, 17 varieties. It only mentions 1720 from Avesta, and that it has 2 varieties, different edges.

It also says that these coins from Avesta (trying to translate); "are often called "Lindgren" (probably the first one to describe them). However it should be called "Wikman", the one who designed them in Avesta. The technique that were used when over-striking on other coins are very different between Stockholm and Avesta. Avesta-minted coins almost always come "double-punched", which means they have weak shadow-strike = overstrike. This should prove that the coins were minted in Avesta."

I do find it odd though, because it's a very good 1718-strike and noone of my other overstrike coins from 1720 from Avesta has got anything that even looks like a 2nd date.

Holy %*/""! Sap.
How do you do that?

In other coin series that are usually found struck over other coin types, such as Bank of England dollars, Brazilian 960 reis and Russian coppers, if the original underlying coin is identifiable, then it adds value. The foruitous "right way up" alignment of this coin is also pleasing to the eye and would add value as well, I think.


Elementary, my dear alganbagerap. To paraphrase Sherlock Holmes, when shown something that should be impossible, then an impossible explanation for it must be true. In this case, we have a coin with two different dates, something which is naturally impossible for a normal coin to have. The possible explanations for this are, in rough order of probablility:
- The owner of the coin has accidentally mixed up pictures from two different coins. This can be ruled out, since the owner of the coin in this case has started a thread specifically to discuss the two-date phenomenon.
- The coin is a "trick coin", made by splicing two different coins together. This can also be ruled out, because the design which we see on the side with the 1718 date was never actually struck for any coin I could find in 1718.
- The coin is a counterfeit.
- The coin is overstruck and the older date is a relic of the coin's prior life. This is only possible in a few circumstances, but the OP's references to "shadow strikes" made me think that this series was indeed a prime candidate for these features to appear. It only remained to find the likely candidagte for the undertype, something which Tomten has now adequately done.

Sweden is known to overstrike copper coins during 1700s. I don't have a catalog for these type of coins but it would be an interesting field to explore what kind of coins were overstruck.

Hey, I had to chime in!

I just got a coin with the 1720 date. Right UNDER that date, on the same side, is the 1718 date.

Here is the twist! On the other side, above the "OR", there is a THIRD DATE of "27". It seems that this coin has been overstruck and overstruck and overstruck ever since 1627. I can't find any other explanation.

I was going to click "Submit Reply", but nah. I'm going to take some pictures of the coin real quick.
Here we go: http://imgur.com/a/6HXtu
Here's an imgur album, enjoy!

I wouldn't be surprised if my coin had a fourth date somewhere. But it's gonna have to be very, very faint. Feel free to check out the pictures and see if you can spot any more dates!