1 daler silvermynt, Stockholm, Karl XII, 1715
This is an emergency coin bearing a crown and the year 1715. Emergency coins were a kind of credit coin issued to strengthen the war chest. Copper emergency coins were officially known as tokens.
The assigned denomination was 1 daler silvermynt, and they weighed 3.6 grams. They would be equivalent in value to a much heavier (756 grams) plate coin of the same denomination.
Engraver: Arvid Karlsteen. The Stockholm mint.
Image rights: Helena Bonnevier, Historiska museet/SHM (CC BY 4.0)
Object number: 115532_KMK
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