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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1223896, member: 12789&quot;]<b>2 Daler 1728</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/sweden/2daler.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1718, the reign of Charles XII was ended at a battle in&nbsp; outside of Kristiana in Norway. Charles&#039;s sister, Ulrika Eleanora&nbsp; inherited the throne, which subsequently was passed onto her husband,&nbsp; Frederik Duke of Hesse. This particular coin was issued during his&nbsp; reign, which lasted from 1720-51.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The demise of plate money in 1776 basically rendered&nbsp; the money worthless except as scrap metal. The greater majority of these&nbsp; coins were subsequently called in, and sold for scrap. They were useful&nbsp; as ballast, so they were loaded deep into the holds of ships travelling&nbsp; to the Far East, where they were thence unloaded and sold as scrap to&nbsp; merchants in Asia. One such ship travelling to the Far East was sunk in a&nbsp; storm in the 1780&#039;s off of South Africa. The &quot;Nicobar&quot; was laden with&nbsp; these coins. Most of the plate money available today came from this&nbsp; shipwreck. Any other, non sea salvage, plate money, such as the two&nbsp; above pieces are now quite scarce.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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