Sweden 1999-B 200 kronor

Stack's Bowers October 2021 Collector's Choice sale, lot 72419

This specimen was lot 72419 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2021), where it did not sell. The catalog description^[1] noted, "SWEDEN. 200 Kronor, 1999-B. Carl XVI Gustaf. NGC PROOFLIKE-69. Struck to commemorate the new Millennium. This bright and flashy example exhibits crisp frosty devices with hard brilliant surfaces. Free of tone, haze or fog." In 1873, the riksdaler species was dropped and 100 öre = one krona (the krona, at 7.5 g, 0.800 fine silver, was slightly smaller than the old riksdaler riksmynt). The system adopted in 1873 is still in use today, the Swedes having recently declined to adopt the euro.

Recorded mintage: 68,000 + 2,000 proofs.

Specification: 27.03 g, 0.925 fine silver, 36 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-898.

Source:

• Delzanno, Roberto, Myntårsboken 2022, Sveriges Mynt 995-2021, 1:a upplagen, Stockholm, 2021.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The October 2021 Collector's Choice sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

Link to:

• 1997 1000 kronor, the 600th Anniversary of the Kalmar Union
• 2001-B 200 kronor, Nobel Prize Centennial
• 2001-B 2,000 kronor, Nobel Prize Centennial
• Coins and currency dated 1999