fwo_822122 - SWEDEN - KINGDOM OF SWEDEN - CHARLES XIV JOHN BERNADOTTE 2 Skilling Banco 1840

SWEDEN - KINGDOM OF SWEDEN - CHARLES XIV JOHN BERNADOTTE 2 Skilling Banco 1840 XF

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Type : 2 Skilling Banco

Date: 1840

Quantity minted : 162000

Metal : copper

Diameter : 33, mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 18,25 g.

Edge : lisse

Coments on the condition:

Des coups

Catalogue references :

KM.19/41

Obverse

Obverse legend : CARL XIV SVERIGES NORR.G.O.V.KONUNG.

Obverse description : buste à droite de Charles XIV.

Reverse

Reverse legend : 2 / SKILLING / BANCO / 1840.

Reverse description : dans le champ dans une couronne de rameaux de chêne, deux flèches croisées.

Commentary

Dernier roi règnant de la maison d'Holstein-Gottorp, Charles XIII n’a pas d’héritier et adopte en 1810 le maréchal d’Empire Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte. A sa mort en 1818, ce dernier lui succède sous le nom de Charles XIV Jean de Suède..

Historical background

SWEDEN - KINGDOM OF SWEDEN - CHARLES XIV JOHN BERNADOTTE

(1818-1844)

Jean Bernadotte (26/1/1763-8/03/1844), Marshal of the Empire and husband of Désirée Clary, therefore Joseph's brother-in-law, was elected Prince Royal of Sweden on August 20, 1810. He broke with Napoleon during the Russian campaign and the fight at Leipzig in 1813. In two weeks, in 1814, he occupied Norway, taken from the Danes with the agreement of the allies. He became King of Sweden and Norway after the death of Charles XIII (1809-1818) on February 5, 1818 and died in 1844. Legend has it that he had "Death to Kings" tattooed on his chest. His son Oscar I succeeds him.