← Read the currency articleSwedish riksdaler specie: research record
Evidence coverage: 1534–1789. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
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Swedish riksdaler specie
CUR-V22-SWEDISH-SPECIE · Research draft
A documented account-unit or currency-system transition supports this predecessor identity; not admitted from a specimen or inherited label alone.
One scoped currency identity. Changes to subdivisions, scale, standard, instruments or issuers do not by themselves create children. A distinct account unit can remain a successor.
Dated observations: 1534–1789; this does not establish the entire lifetime.
Parents / predecessors
Children / successors
Unit and issue records 1 records
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
The Swedish silver daler · C2121
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The Swedish silver dalerSweden introduced the silver daler in 1534 on the Joachimsthaler model. Its later riksdaler-specie history is distinct from the daler account fixed at four marks.
Sources and qualifications → Account-unit observations
Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
1534supportedSweden introduced the silver daler in 1534 on the Joachimsthaler model. Its later riksdaler-specie history is distinct from the daler account fixed at four marks.
C2121
Evidence & research notes 3 claims
Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
Inference C1155
Edvinsson distinguishes riksdaler specie from the riksgälds unit emerging in 1789, and groups riksgälds, riksmynt and krona in one continuing unit. This supports a qualified branch from specie, rather than an invented new currency at every name change.
Rodney Edvinsson, Sveriges Riksbank · The multiple currencies of Sweden–Finland 1534–1803 Citation S550 ·
Open source ↗Figure 4.1, printed p.136; section 4.5.2, pp.184–189; table 4.6
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Supported C2121
Sweden introduced the silver daler in 1534 on the Joachimsthaler model. Its later riksdaler-specie history is distinct from the daler account fixed at four marks.
Rodney Edvinsson, Sveriges Riksbank · Swedish monetary standards in a historical perspective (2010) Citation S1117 ·
Open source ↗Printed pp. 28, 50 and 53; silver daler, Joachimsthaler and later specie terminology
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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Qualified C2129
Swedish silver-daler adoption in 1534 followed the Joachimsthaler monetary model, within the Saxon-Bohemian silver-thaler tradition. The four-mark Swedish daler account is excluded from this specie identity.
Rodney Edvinsson, Sveriges Riksbank · Swedish monetary standards in a historical perspective (2010) Citation S1117 ·
Open source ↗Printed pp. 28, 50 and 53; silver daler, Joachimsthaler and later specie terminology; Printed pp. X–XII and XVI–XVII
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Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Deutsche Bundesbank · Deutsche Taler: Von den Anfängen der Talerprägung bis zum Dreißigjährigen Krieg (foreword 1966) Citation S1112 ·
Open source ↗Printed pp. 28, 50 and 53; silver daler, Joachimsthaler and later specie terminology; Printed pp. X–XII and XVI–XVII
Source access and limitations
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.