v08_1723 - SWEDEN - KINGDOM OF SWEDEN - GUSTAF III Riksdaler, 3e type 1782 Stockholm

SWEDEN - KINGDOM OF SWEDEN - GUSTAF III Riksdaler, 3e type 1782 Stockholm AU

MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 228.67 €
Estimate : 381.12 €
unsold lot

Type : Riksdaler, 3e type

Date: 1782

Mint name / Town : Stockholm

Quantity minted : 654000

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 878 ‰

Diameter : 41 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 29,09 g.

Edge : en relief MANIBUS** NE* LAEDAR* AVARIS*

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire frappé sur un flan large et régulier. Patine hétérogène avec de petites taches. Relief assez haut au droit et au revers. Tranche nette et bien venue à la frappe

Catalogue references :

Dav.1736 - KM/WC.18/527 p. 1000 - SM.48

Obverse

Obverse legend : GUSTAVUS III. D. G. REX SVECIAE..

Obverse description : Tête nue de Gustave III à droite, un bandeau noué dans les cheveux.

Obverse translation : (Gustave III, par la grâce de Dieu, roi de Suède).

Reverse

Reverse legend : FADERNESLANDET. / 1. - RD.. / 17-82.

Reverse description : Écu rond de Suède couronné entouré du collier de l'Ordre des Séraphins.

Commentary

Boutique Monde.

Historical background

SWEDEN - KINGDOM OF SWEDEN - GUSTAF III

(12/02/1771-29/03/1792)

Gustave III (24/01/1746-29/03/1792) is the son of Adolphe-Frédéric (1710-1771) who reigned over Sweden from 1753 to 1771 and Louise Ulrica of Prussia (1710-1782). He succeeded his father in 1771 and married Sophie Madeleine of Denmark (1746-1813) in 1766 with whom he had two sons, Charles Gustave who died young and Gustave-Adolphe IV (1778-1837) who succeeded his father in 1792 before dying. abdicated in 1809. Gustave III was the Swedish model of the enlightened despot, a great admirer of France. He fought against Denmark and Russia. Freemason, he developed the Order in Sweden, but clashed with the conservative party of "caps" and was assassinated by one of its officers on the eve of declaring war on revolutionary France. Charles XIII (1748-1818), brother of Gustave III, had already been regent between 1792 and 1796 and succeeded his nephew in 1809. Died childless, it was Charles XIV Jean Bernadotte (1818-1844) who ascended the throne.