Sweden's 500th Anniiversary of Riksdag Silver Coin: What is Riksdag? The Riksdag (officially Swedish : Sveriges riksdag) is the national legislative assembly of Sweden. Riksdag is the direct Swedish equivalent of the German Reichstag. In the Swedish Constitution, the word is written with a lower-case "r", thus marking that it is actually not a name of the parliament, but that it is just "the parliament". The Riksdag was established in 1435. Since my main collection of coinage consists of silver coins of the world bearing my birthyear (1935), I have one. It's a Five Kronor piece. The coin measures 36mm, weighs in at 0.7234 ounces ASW, and 663,819 were struck for circulation. It bears a G on the obverse. It is not, per se, a mint mark , but is the initial identifiing the mint official responsible for the production of coinage from 1927 through 1945 (Alf Grabe). Because it celebrates the 500th anniversary of such an historical event, I thought you might like to know about it and see some photos of it (courtesy of Coin Page): Swedish 1935 G Five Kronor - Obverse Gustaf V: http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-5416.html Swedish 1935 G Five Kronor - Reverse 500th Anniversary of Riksdag: http://www.coinpage.com/coin-image-5417.html Hope you enjoyed this bit of Trivia. Clinker
Interesting coin, Clinker. The mint mark is the symbol next to Alf Grabe's "G" - should be a little head representing St. Eric, the patron of Stockholm. There are several parliaments that have similar names, by the way. While Germany (the Federal Republic) does not have a "Reichstag", the term is still used when referring to the main building of the Bundestag. Denmark had the "Rigsdagen" until the early 1950s. And Finland's parliament (Eduskunta) is called "Riksdag" in Swedish which is the official language of the Swedish minority in FI ... Christian
