Pomerania 1792 3 pfenninge

from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 11412

This specimen was lot 11412 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €105 (about US$110). The catalog description^[1] noted, "SWEDEN. 3 Pfennig, 1792. Pommern-Stralsund. Gustav IV Adolf. NGC VF Details--Cleaned. From the L. E. Bruun Collection." This type was struck 1776, 1792, 1806 and 1808. Sweden ceded her last holdings in Pomerania to Prussia at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. The abbreviation "K. S. P. L. M." stands for "Königlich Schwedisch-Pommersche Land-Münze" (royal Swedish Pomeranian local coin).

Recorded mintage: 384,000.

Specifications: 3 g, copper, 23 mm diameter, this specimen 2.92 g.

Catalog reference: KM-422; Delzanno-266; SB-266; Bruun-13172.

Sources:

• Bjorne Ahlström, Yngve Almer and Bengt Hemmingson, Sveriges Mynt, 1521-1977, the Coinage of Sweden. Stockholm: Numismatika Bokforlaget AB, 1976.
• Delzanno, Roberto, Myntårsboken 2022, Sveriges Mynt 995-2021, 1:a upplagen, Stockholm, 2021.
• Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection, and Selections from the L. E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

Link to:

• 1763-IDL 1/12 thaler
• 1763-IHL ⅔ thaler
• Pomerania 1806 3 pfenninge KM-424, Stralsund mint, "K · SCHWED · POM · LANDES M ·" on obverse
• Coins and currency dated 1792