Sweden 1695-AS 8 mark Dav-4539
This specimen was lot 11352 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €264 (about US$275). The catalog description[1] noted, "SWEDEN. 8 Mark, 1695 - AS. Stockholm Mint. Karl XI. NGC EF Details--Graffiti. Graffiti, the date 1737 scratched into obverse. From the L. E. Bruun Collection." This type was struck 1692-96 in sufficient numbers to be the most common eight mark of the seventeenth century. The striking of riksdalers resumed in the eighteenth century after the Great Northern War (1700-21). Eight öre made a mark and six mark made a riksdaler.
Recorded mintage: 23,747.
Specifications: 31.34 g, 0.922 fine silver, 41.5 mm diameter, this specimen 31.07 g.
Catalog reference: Dav-4539; KM-311; Delzanno-28; SM 67-116; Bruun-12531.
- Bjorne Ahlström, Yngve Almer and Bengt Hemmingson, Sveriges Mynt, 1521-1977, the Coinage of Sweden. Stockholm: Numismatika Bokforlaget AB, 1976.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Davenport, John S., European Crowns, 1600-1700, Galesburg, IL, 1974.
- Delzanno, Roberto, Myntårsboken 2022, Sveriges Mynt 995-2021, 1:a upplagen, Stockholm, 2021.
- [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.
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