Sweden 1820 skilling
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This specimen was lot 70331 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Santa Ana, CA, May 2020), where it sold for $144. The catalog description[1] noted, "SWEDEN. Skilling, 1820. Avesta Mint. Carl XIV Johan. NGC MS-64 Brown. Variety with square milling. Perched at the top of NGC's census, this rich brown near Gem offers a high level of lustrous brilliance and even displays a hint of off-centering and slight clipping of the planchet." Prior to the reform of 1830, 48 skilling = one riksdaler. The denomination was terminated in 1855. This type was struck 1819-30 and is not rare, altho the variety with oblique milling is scarce.
Specification: 17 g, copper, 33-34 mm diameter.
Recorded mintage: 1,376,000.
Catalog reference: KM-597.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The May 2020 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.
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