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Revision as of 11:12, 22 January 2026

from the Stack's Bowers 2017 Collector's Choice sale, lot 72988
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This specimen was lot 72988 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Santa Ana, CA, May 2017), where it sold for $352.50. The catalog description[1] noted, "SWEDEN. Mark, 1696. NGC MS-61. Nice strike with attractive luster." This type, struck 1683-97, is the most common of this denomination struck during the seventeenth century. It is, however, scarcer than the concurrent two mark or four mark.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 5.20 g, 0.694 fine silver.

Catalog reference: KM-295.

Source:

  • 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.
  • Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
  • [1]Ponterio, Rick, et al., The May 2017 Collector's Choice Sale, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2017.

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