Swedish coin, copper, obverse Mercury holding caduceus (coin also known as 'distress coin' or Gortz Daler), reverse "1 DALER S.M." enclosed in a circle, a wreath of weapons and vegetal forms, date 1718.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Sweden
Verbatim coll. place:
Sweden
Culture or time period:
Swedish
Collector:
Axel O. Lindstrom
Collection date:
1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Coins (money)
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Production date:
1718
Accession date:
February 12, 1903
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)