KINGDOM OF SWEDEN
REIGN OFÂ FREDERICK IÂ (1720-1751) - HOUSE OF HESSE-KASSEL
MASSIVEÂ ONE-HALF DALER S.M. 1733 HISTORIC COPPER PLATE MONEY (1644-1776)
THE COPPER PLATE 1/2 DALER IS RELATIVELY SQUARE WITH VERY SLIGHTLY OUTWARD CURVED OR ROUNDED CORNER ANGLES AND ROUNDED SIDES SLIGHTLY CURVED INWARD.
OBV: CENTERÂ ROUND STAMP WITH BEADED OUTLINE, WITH VALUE "1/2" ABOVE WITH DENOMINATIONÂ "DALER" BENEATH, "SILF MINT" WITH CROSSED ARROWS BELOW; ROUND STAMPS IN EACH CORNER WITH CROWNED "FRS"Â UNENTWINED ROYAL CYPHERS (FREDRIK I) AND DATE BELOW.Â
REV: BLANK.
KM # PM65
SWEDISH COPPER PLATE MONEY WAS INTRODUCED DUE TO THE ABUNDANCE OF COPPER FROM SWEDEN'S MINES AND THE LACK OF THE AVIALABILITY OF SILVER AND GOLD. THESE CUMBERSOME COINS WERE ISSUED IN COPPER BULLION WITH CONTENT REFLECTING THE VALUE OF THE SILVER THEY REPLACED. ALL TYPES AND DENOMINATIONS OF THIS HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE AND RARE AND ONCE LEGAL TENDER COIN OF THE REALM, CIRCULATED THROUGHOUT SWEDEN AND FINLAND.
FREDERICK I (1676-1751), LANDGRAVE OF HESSE-KASSEL, MARRIED , ULRIKA ELEONORA OF SWEDEN IN 1715. UPON THE DEATH OF ELEONORA'S BROTHER, KING CHARLES XI OF SWEDEN, IN 1718, SHE PERSUADED THE RIKSDAG TO ALLOW HER TO ASCEND THE THRONE AS THE QUEEN REGNANT OF SWEDEN IF SHE RENOUNCEDÂ THE ABSOLUTIST POWERS OF THE MONARCHY. IN 1720 SHE ABDICATED THE THRONE IN FAVOR OF HER CONSORT FREDERICK, AND SHE REMAINED QUEEN CONSORT THEREAFTER.
CONTAINSÂ 372.5Â Â GRAMS OF COPPER
MEASURES 4 TO 4 3/16" INCHES IN LENGTH x 3.5" TO 3 6/8" INCHES IN WIDTH
