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Revision as of 11:44, 1 August 2024

Heritage sale 3029, lot 31011
photo courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries

This specimen was lot 31011 in Heritage sale 3029 (New York, January 2014), where it sold for $470. The catalog description[1] noted, "Oscar I 2 Riksdaler 1857-ST, AU55 NGC. Lightly toned with strong design features. A very scarce one-year type equal to 1/2 Riksdaler Specie. Ex: 'Colonel' E.H.R. Green; Green Estate' Partnership of Eric P Newman/B.G. Johnson." In 1855, the coinage was reformed once again. The skilling and fractional riksdalers were dropped for a quasidecimal system of 100 öre = one riksdaler riksmynt and four riksdaler riksmynt = one riksdaler specie. The two riksdaler is the half dollar equivalent. The denomination was struck 1857 (shown here), 1862-64 and 1871; all dates are scarce to rare.

Recorded mintage: 288,000.

Specification: 17 g, 0.750 fine silver, 31.8 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM 694.

Source:

  • Bjorne Ahlstrom, Yngve Almer and Bengt Hemmingson, Sveriges Mynt, 1521-1977, the Coinage of Sweden. Stockholm: Numismatika Bokforlaget AB, 1976.
  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
  • [1]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Stuart Levine and Bruce Lorich, Heritage World and Ancient Coins Auction 3029, featuring Selections from the Eric P. Newman Collection, Part III, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2013.

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