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Marcus Kock, born at Liège, Feb. 14, 1585; died at Avesta
Nov. 20, 1657.

The crude copper obtained
from the copper mine at Falun
was in the olden days exported
to Lübeck to be purified or
refined. In 1621 the mining
concern, Falu Bergslag, decided
to have the ore refined in this
country. For this purpose was
founded a separate company,
called the Copper Company,
which in 1636, through its
managers, senator Claes Flemming
and burgomaster Jöns
Hendriksson, purchased the Avesta
Works. It was then a wild forest
with a hammer-forge and a few
small flour mills. A copper
refinery was now erected, but
was already in 1641 sold to the
old mining concern, Falu
Bergslag. With that the Copper
Company ceased to exist and the
copper market became free.
In the same year Avesta
became a township. In 1642
the Government, on behalf
of the Bergslag, entered into an agreement with Marcus Kock, a Dutchman who
had been brought to Sweden by Gustavus Adolphus in order to improve the coinage.
According to this contract Kock took over the works at Avesta for a period of four
years, on condition that he should complete the works, which were then hardly half
finished, and refine all the copper of the Bergslag. In the same year Kock obtained
a licence for the copper coinage. From 1644 not only small change was coined,
but also the large copper plates characteristic of the coinage of Sweden a couple of
hundred years ago.

Marcus Kock soon succeeded in developing Avesta into one of the chief copper
refineries of its day. His contract was renewed a couple of times and lasted until his
death in 1657, when it was transferred to his widow and children and renewed until
1667. On the occasion of the Crown resuming in 1667 the ownership of estates, &c.,

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