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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1318023, member: 12789&quot;]I am not going to venture into that ring stuff, I don&#039;t even own any, nor do I care.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately for 17th and 18th century Swedes, plate money was created to be a circulating medium - a plentiful substitute for silver that the latter of was in rather shorter supply.&nbsp; Plate money, much like modern presidential/Sacagawea/SBA, were created by the crown that more or less could careless about semantics like convenience, portability etc.&nbsp; Just like now with those dollar coins in the USA, banks were stuffed with the stuff and they rarely actually saw commerce.&nbsp; As a result, they were finally discontinued in 1776, and what could be gathered for scrap value was sold and loaded onto a Dutch ship that was SE Asia bound when it broke up off of South Africa in 1781.&nbsp; Therefore most of the pieces available on the market came from that shipwreck in the late 1980&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>So they were created with the intent of a circulating medium, but failed to perform that purpose because of the inconvenience.</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>Do imagine trapsing off to the village market with this piece in the pursuit of foodstuffs for the evening meal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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