1/2 daler, Svartsjö, Gustav I Vasa, 1545
The coin you see in the display case is a ½ daler minted at the mint in Svartsjö. In 1540 Gustav Vasa moved the mint to Svartsjö on Ekerö by Lake Mälaren. The mint remained in Svartsjö until 1550. ½ daler began to be minted in Sweden in 1534 and at Svartsjö from 1544 until 1550. ½ daler was equal to 2 marks or 16 öre.
The coin in the display case was minted in 1545 and in that year 15,434 half-daler were minted at the mint. The obverse of the coin shows a three-crowned shield on the left and a shield with a lion on the right. Above them is a royal crown and below is the year, 1545. The inscription reads ‘INSIGNIA REGNI SWE GOTI ET WAN 1545’, which can be translated as ‘Coat of arms of the Kingdom of the Swedes, the Goths and the Wends 1545’. The inscription ends with an acorn, a symbol of the mintmaster Hans Hansson.
The mintmaster was the person who led the work in the mint and Hans Hansson held this title in Västerås 1539-1540, Svartsjö 1541-1550 and Turku 1556-1558. On the reverse is a waist picture of the Saviour in a cloak, holding the world globe. The inscription reads ‘EGO SVM VIA VERITAS ET VITA’, which can be translated as ‘I am the truth and life’.
)Object number: 106826_KMK
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