Sweden 1708-LC 4 mark
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This specimen was lot 11363 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for €504 (about US$525). The catalog description[1] noted, "SWEDEN. 4 Mark, 1708 - LC. Stockholm Mint. Karl XII. NGC AU Details--Spot Removed. Overstruck date 1707/8. From the L. E. Bruun Collection." This is from a type struck 1708-16 in small quantities. It is a common date of a scarce type; the SCWC says all 1708's are the overdate 1708/7. Eight öre made a mark and six mark made a riksdaler.
Recorded mintage: 16,667.
Specifications: 20.80 g, 0.694 fine silver, 36.3 mm diameter, this specimen 20.76 g.
Catalog reference: KM-337; Delzanno-28; SM-48; Bruun-12640.
- 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.
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