10 öre, Stockholm, Oscar I, 1857

People called this coin a fish scale, scale, herring scale and herring eye because it was so very small and thin. The small size of the coin may have inspired a firm in Nuremberg, Germany, Ludwig Christian Lauer, to produce toy money that looked like the Swedish 10 öre. The toy coins were made of copper and above the denomination was the word keine (= none), meaning ‘no 10 öre’. Despite this, the public took the copper coins for real and the newspapers warned of fake ten öre coins.

Image rights: Helena Bonnevier, Ekonomiska museet - Kungliga myntkabinettet/SHM (CC BY 4.0)

Object number: 117486_KMK

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