Sweden (15)98 ore
This specimen was lot 11024 in Stack's Bowers June 2026 World Premier Collectors Choice Auction (Copenhagen, June 2026), where it sold for €244 (about US$281). The catalog description[1] noted, "SWEDEN. Öre, 1598. Stockholm Mint. Sigismund. NGC VF Details--Environmental Damage. Last year of this type. From the L.E. Bruun Collection." Sigsimund III was king of Poland 1587-1625 and king of Sweden 1592-99. His fanatical Catholicism was popular in Poland but less so in Lutheran Sweden and he was ousted by his uncle, who became Charles IX (r. 1604-11). This type was struck 1594-98. One daler was 32 öre or four mark.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 2.81 g, 0.250 fine silver, 25 mm diameter, this specimen 2.07 g.
Catalog reference: KM MB228, SM-19; Delzanno-25; Bruun-11663.
- Bjorne Ahlstrom, 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.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, June 2026 World Premier Collectors Choice Auction - Selections from the L.E. Bruun Collection, the Richard Margolis Collection and the Kirk Menczer Collection of Republican Reales Minors, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2026.
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