Phoebus coin

Museum number:
7-5530
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21070005530
Accession number:
Acc.908
Description:
Swedish coin, copper, obverse standing figure holding wheat and sun symbol on a staff, surrounded by rays, "PHOEBUS 1718" (Also known as distress coins, or Gortz dalers), reverse "1 DALER S.M." encircled, surrounded by a wreath of weapons and vegetal forms, date 1718.
Donor:
Mary W. Knight
Collection place:
Sweden
Verbatim coll. place:
Sweden
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coins (money)
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Accession date:
1947
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Phoebus coin, accession number 7-5530, described as Swedish coin, copper, obverse standing figure holding wheat and sun symbol on a staff, surrounded by rays, "PHOEBUS 1718" (Also known as distress coins, or Gortz dalers), reverse "1 DALER S.M." encircled, surrounded by a wreath of weapons and vegetal forms, date 1718.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Phoebus coin, accession number 7-5530, described as Swedish coin, copper, obverse standing figure holding wheat and sun symbol on a staff, surrounded by rays, "PHOEBUS 1718" (Also known as distress coins, or Gortz dalers), reverse "1 DALER S.M." encircled, surrounded by a wreath of weapons and vegetal forms, date 1718.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Phoebus coin, accession number 7-5530, described as Swedish coin, copper, obverse standing figure holding wheat and sun symbol on a staff, surrounded by rays, "PHOEBUS 1718" (Also known as distress coins, or Gortz dalers), reverse "1 DALER S.M." encircled, surrounded by a wreath of weapons and vegetal forms, date 1718.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Phoebus coin, accession number 7-5530, described as Swedish coin, copper, obverse standing figure holding wheat and sun symbol on a staff, surrounded by rays, "PHOEBUS 1718" (Also known as distress coins, or Gortz dalers), reverse "1 DALER S.M." encircled, surrounded by a wreath of weapons and vegetal forms, date 1718.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Phoebus coin, accession number 7-5530, described as Swedish coin, copper, obverse standing figure holding wheat and sun symbol on a staff, surrounded by rays, "PHOEBUS 1718" (Also known as distress coins, or Gortz dalers), reverse "1 DALER S.M." encircled, surrounded by a wreath of weapons and vegetal forms, date 1718.

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