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FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN. 535
Thefe theets were made of a very foft and highly malleabie copper, in the fhape of a
long fquare, and about as thick as three half crowns laid together, and were marked at
the four corners with the arms of Sweden; in the middle the value was ftamped.
Thofe which were current for a rix-dollar, weighed five pounds and a half.
i8o dollars flbermunt, or 540 dollars koppermunt, in fheets of the value of 4 dollars
to half a-dollar /ilbermunt, or from 12 dollars koppermunt, were made from a f{chippund
of 320 pounds provifion weight. goo dollars of copper money ftamped and rimmed,
of from 6 cers to half an ceer keppermunt, from one fchippund of copper, provifion
weight.
The ftandard of the pieces of one ceer, is 2den. 8 grs.
of thofe — of fourcers, — 3 18
of thofe — from 5to10, — 5 8 ;
In 1716, pieces of five and fix oers were coined much inferior to the ftandard of the
coins before mtentioned.
Impreffions.
The golden ducat has the King’s head on one fide with his name in latin, and this
legend: D. G. Rex Surci@; on the other a circular fhield, the ground azure, with
three golden crowns furrounded by the chain of the order of the Seraphim, and this
legend: FaDERNESLANDET. The date is under the fhield, and is divided by the crofs
of the order which alfo difjoins thefe two letters O L diftinguithed above the date.
The impreilion on the rix-dollars, plottes, and double plottes is fimilar to that on the
ducats, except that on the field of the reverfe, the value for which they are current is
{tamped, and on the rim is feen this lerend: Ne /edar avaris manibus. The fmaller
filver pieces have the initial of the Sovereign on one fide, and within his diftinguifhing
cypher with the fingle word: Iaderne/landet ; on the oppofite fide they have the fame
fhield as the ducats, but without the chain. On the right of the field the value is
ftamped, and R, O. M. on the left, ina line with the figures.
The copper coins have an argent fhield with three bars undulated with azure, a lion
crowned, with his throat ftrongly marked, and an abridged legend compofed of the ini-
tial of the Sovereign with his diftinguifhing cypher, and S..G. V. R. The three
crowns which form the arms of Sweden, are placed one on the dexter fide, the other on
the finifter, and the third at the bottom of the fhield. On the other fide are two ar-
rows making a St. Andrew’s Crofs, with the crown of Sweden, the date and a mark
expreffive of the value. Late coins have a chain round the rim. The rundftiick has
three crowns on one fide, and above them G. R.S., below is the date; on the other
fide is a fhield with two arrows forming a St. Andrew’s crofs; on the right of the fhield is
figure of i. and the letter K., on the left the two letters O.R., below which M. is placed.
Obfervations.
The Swedifh coins are generally well ftruck, particularly thofe of gold and filver.
Little fpecie of the coinage of the country is feen in circulation, but anumber of Dutch
ducats. ‘They are exchanged at par for thofe of Sweden, notwithf{tanding the Dutch
ducat be only 23 carats 5 grains fine. Somewhat more of the filver coin is in circula-
tion; they, as well as thofe of gold are {tamped with the greateft nicety, and in confe-
quence are in high eftimation; the exportation of them is rigidly prohibited, as well as
the copper coinage, which offers a gain of 30 per cent.
‘There is no fixed relation of value between gold and-filver in Sweden. In 1755,
the proportion was 1 to 18, which is difficult to believe; in Swedifh Pomerania it is
1 to
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